Re: Test for getaddrinfo() broken on Tru64 UNIX 5.1

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Oct 13, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
> > > >   4) Don't use 0 to designate null pointers. That doesn't sit  
> > > > well with
> > > >      C++ compilers.
> > >
> > > s/C++/C/ right?
> >
> > Actually, neither C nor C++ compilers cry when you use 0 for NULL.  
> > It's only
> > my personal preference.
>
> On platforms where integers aren't the same size as pointers,  
> things can
> go wrong if 1) you pass 0 to a function that expects a pointer and no
> function prototype was available during compilation, or 2) you pass it
> to a function that takes a variable parameter list.  So it is a good
> habit to use NULL for pointers.
>
> /Simon

Yes, but this point stands for C compilers.  In C++, `0' is the  
preferred way of expressing `NULL'.  But since C++ compilers have  
nothing against `NULL', it's obviously a better choice in the context  
of gnulib.

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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