[TUHS] Comments on "C"

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> The null pointer constant does not need a cast on ANY architecture .


Well, it's a matter of what counts as "need".  People normally expect
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "date", NULL) to work, but it will not on
systems
that define NULL as 0 and have different sizes of integers and pointers
(or, Ghu forbid, null pointers that are not all-bits-0).  The man page is
careful to warn against this practice, but it is commonplace anyhow,
and on such architectures, defining NULL as (void *)0 will protect
users against this situation.

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