[patch] alias.c: Replace "return NULL_RTX" with "return 0".

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Thu Jun 12 21:41:00 GMT 2003


On Jun 12, 2003, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

>> A system that defines NULL to 0 where that is a different size from
>> (void*)0 is broken.  Does such brokenness actually exist?

> Dunno, but that's still not good enough - consider an ABI where
> pointers go in different registers from integers when passing
> arguments.

I guess this means we must keep on using NULL_RTX, at least for
passing NULL rtx arguments through varargs...  How about other uses?

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