Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:22:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I'm sorry that you are such a K&R-C bigot that you don't like type 
> checking. But the kernel DOES like type checking, and the kernel is not 
> K&R C. The kernel uses strict ANSI, and in fact, is _more_ strict than 
> ANSI C is in many many ways.

Well it's your project so you get to set the coding style.

But it is ironic that you call people who use 0 in a pointer context
K&R-C bigots.  One of the principal reason why NULL exists at all
is in fact the lack of prototypes in K&R...
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