* On Thursday 2005-06-23 at 08:33:11 -0300, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote: > > The rest of GNU grep's source code uses NULL > > all over the place. Would anyone be opposed to > > a 's/0/NULL/g' switch for these pointer values? > > Are there any portability issues that are not > > already triggered by the rest of the code? > > Be careful not to replace any integer 0's with NULLs :O)
Duh! :-) The whole point would be to bring separation between the integer 0 case and the NULL pointer case. And I want to have as little as possible to do with that dreaded hungarian notation to achieve that. (As my first teacher of linear algebra used to say regarding the dubious practice of putting little arrows over mathematical variables representing vectors: "we're not here to play cowboys and indians!".)
