On Thursday 2012-07-26 00:55 -0700, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > I guess we could define it to be NULL instead of 0L/0LL, but surely there was > some reason we didn't do that for nsnull to begin with?
There are some header files in various libraries or OSes that define NULL for C++ as ((void*)0) rather than just 0 or 0L/0LL. While ((void*)0) is the traditional defintion in C, for C++ it's broken since you can't cast a (void*) to a function pointer. (For example, on my Ubuntu 11.10 system, this is broken in only /usr/include/valgrind/pub_tool_basics.h and /usr/include/gstreamer-0.10/gst/check/internal-check.h, but I believe the problem used to be more common and may have been present in the standard library on some more obscure systems.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
