Re: Style Question

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 11 2007 21:27, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 19:16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>> > On the other hand when __cplusplus is defined they define it to the
>> > "__null" builtin, which GCC uses to give type conversion errors for
>> > "int foo = NULL" but not "char *foo = NULL".

>> I think that the primary reason they use __null is so that you can
>> actually do[...]
>
> Isn't that what I said? :-D

Ya. Though I was picking at

|"__null" builtin, which GCC uses to give type conversion errors for
|"int foo = NULL"

since C's (void *)0 would also barf when being assigned to int.
So it's not a genuine __null feature ;-)


Jan
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