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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:41:29 -0700
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On 7/10/2024 6:12 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 7/9/2024 2:21 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-07-08, Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> We could patch GCC to have a -Wnull-ptr-zero, which will give you a
>>>> diagnostic for every occurrence of a zero valued integer expression that
>>>> becomes a null pointer constant rather than an integer or floating-point
>>>> value (and that isn't cast to pointer type).
>>> Sure.
>>> I once tried to persuade the compiler team where I worked to write a
>>> "tool box" for diagnostics that would have a meta-language in which
>>> users could describe the conditions that wanted to be diagnosed.  The
>>> idea was half-baked so it never went anywhere.
>>
>> No funding?
> 
> No.  As I said the idea was half-baked.  I could not pin it down and
> nether could anyone else.  Without a clear specification, it could not
> go forward.
> 

shit happens! Sometimes, those half-baked ideas can turn out to be 
interesting.