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Re: NULL macro
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: NULL macro |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:37:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Peter Seebach and Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> > Note that NULL could
>> > be the same, or it could be already converted to (void *), so it depends on
>> > the implementation whether:
>> >
>> > printf("%p\n", NULL);
>> >
>> > is legit. (Which means it's not portable...)
>>
>> Indeed, and a quite realistic example of where this bug hits in practice
>> is with the version-etc module where the final NULL needs to be
>> explicitly casted to work properly on all systems, e.g.:
>>
>> version_etc (stdout, "gsasl", p, gsasl_check_version (NULL),
>> "Simon Josefsson", (char *) NULL);
>
> That's true when you consider only ISO C99.
And C89/C90?
> But in POSIX, NULL is required to be (void *) 0. See
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stddef.h.html>
> "The macro shall expand to an integer constant expression with the value 0
> cast
> to type void *."
Thanks for the reference.
/Simon