Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:18:29 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/ | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:22:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm sorry that you are such a K&R-C bigot that you don't like type > checking. But the kernel DOES like type checking, and the kernel is not > K&R C. The kernel uses strict ANSI, and in fact, is _more_ strict than > ANSI C is in many many ways.
Well it's your project so you get to set the coding style.
But it is ironic that you call people who use 0 in a pointer context K&R-C bigots. One of the principal reason why NULL exists at all is in fact the lack of prototypes in K&R... -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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