Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:31:30 +0100 (CET) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [Cocci] spatch for trivial pointer comparison style? |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > I don't think that the change is desirable in all cases. There are > > functions like kmalloc where NULL means failure and !p seems like the > > reasonable choice. But there maybe other cases where NULL is somehow > > a meaningful value. > > How do you think about to adjust checks for null pointers not only > in Linux source files but also in other applications? > Are there any more software design challenges to consider with the > definition of the preprocessor symbol "NULL"?
Other applications may have other preferences.
julia
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