Re: [C++ patch] accept __null as sentinel

[Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse dot de>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:12:58PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> FWIW, Michael, I agree that allowing NULL (and thus __null) to be used
> as a valid sentinal is the only way this will practically be useful to
> real code.
> 
> No matter what the C++ standard might say, there are too many people
> that expect C++ to work like C (and vice-versa).  Thus sizeof(NULL)
> must equal sizeof(void *), and woe to the poor sod that thinks they
> can deploy an abi that passes pointers and integers in different
> places --- at least wrt stdargs.

Btw, I already marked up glib2, gtk2, some more GNOME libs, several
X core headers, fontconfig with sentinel markup...
(patches upstream already to a large degree).

There were a lot of warnings in C++ code which can be avoided by
this patch, almost all other warnings pointed to real problems.

Ciao, Marcus

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