Re: dpkg with triggers support (again)

[Steve Greenland <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12-Mar-08, 04:21 (CDT), Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Yay for portability: many compilers don't support forward static prototypes
> properly. And then we hear about using (char *)0 instead of NULL for
> portability reasons,

As has been explained, the problem is not replacing "0" with "NULL",
which should be equivalent in any C89 or C99 compiler, the problem is
replacing "(char *)0" with "NULL", which is not.

Claiming it doesn't matter because it works fine on all current Debian
platforms is no different than those who assumed "sizeof(long) == 4",
or that pointers and ints were interchangeable. After all, it worked on
their platform, so why be correct?

Steve


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Steve Greenland
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    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net


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