On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:48:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yeah. I started out leaving bad stuff as NULL originally, but over time, > as I noticed SIGSEGV's, I mostly changed the ones that I ended up having > trigger to &bad_ctype. > > Otherwise we either need to test for NULL all the time (and especially > since NULL under _some_ circumstances is ok and means "not evaluated yet", > that can be confusing), and having to pass up errors higher and higher up.
I think I run into the exact same situations. It start out as simple rules "&bad_ctype" means error. But then all the test against NULL need to change to test against &bad_ctpye as well. It is getting subtle for some place NULL means not evaluated yet. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
