On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 01:59:16PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Konstantin Belousov > <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Our existing practice is to not provide an advise in the man pages > > for the userspace code which would harm the portability or the standard > > conformance. > > Perhaps, but you do not have to look beyond this manual page to find > that such a practice, if it is even nominally applied, is not followed > consistently. The remainder of the document spells the terminating > value as plain "NULL." FreeBSD manual pages consistently refer to > NULL as a pointer value. > > The Linux manual page spells the terminating value (char *)NULL and > explicitly documents why. That is perhaps both pedantically correct > and clear. I am amenable to such a change. I do not see much difference between (char *)0 and (char *)NULL. Both are better there, because both are correct.
If you prefer (char *)NULL, please use it. > > > I am not so sure about CheriBSD, for instance. > > I observe simply that CheriBSD is not FreeBSD and that CHERI is an > exotic architecture. We should not give an advise which breaks other architectures, even if not included into the mainline repo. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
