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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: question about nullptr Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:55:54 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <87sewjsdc5.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: <v6bavg$3pu5i$1@dont-email.me> <20240706054641.175@kylheku.com> <v6bfi1$3qn4u$1@dont-email.me> <l9ciO.7$cr5e.2@fx05.iad> <877cdyuq0f.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2ckiO.19403$7Ej.4487@fx46.iad> <87plrpt4du.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <9bCiO.7108$sXW9.3805@fx41.iad> <87jzhwu5v9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20240708001722.280@kylheku.com> <v6gab6$qdd2$1@dont-email.me> <878qyctcdt.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <v6gf23$r5pf$1@dont-email.me> <8734ojua2s.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <v6h9su$vkip$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:55:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3bc602097df9bef4fe534cf857153f79"; logging-data="1121629"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19e+8rwogeFHApJ1y9prbnZIwTCGOFBkcg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vIDTz6Z8PmGKB9eDHXe8ZEDS4t4= sha1:tw8oGVa1JF4wjcxrHQPE+5lRQvM= X-BSB-Auth: 1.3b1743fe6248aeebd75f.20240708235554BST.87sewjsdc5.fsf@bsb.me.uk Bytes: 2195 Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes: > On 08.07.2024 18:23, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 08.07.2024 12:18, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>> What's superfluous to one is useful for others (e.g. for grep'ing >>>>> occurrences of a null-pointer value in source codes); >>>> >>>> This is been suggested twice now but I'm struggling to see why that is >>>> useful. I can see management wanting one to find all uses of a null >>>> pointer constant to check that they have all been replaced by the >>>> "safer" nullptr, but what's the value in searching for nullptr? >>> >>> Bug-tracking. >> >> Can you say more? > > Frankly, no. OK. -- Ben.