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Re: gcc and NULL function pointers.

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 18:10
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In article <4796@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> Do a global search-and-replace on the files,
> especially if you ever expect to redistribute the code.

Only to real computers.

> That's why standard headers were invented, to be standard.

Fine. ((void *)0) still conforms to the standard.

>     sed 's/\([^_A-Za-z]\)NULL\([^_A-Za-z]\)/\1(void *)NULL\2/g'

Right. Boy, that's going to win friends and influence people. Plus, what do
you think that'd do when I want to apply the next patch that comes from the
net? Instead of grovelling around in code beforehand, I'll have to do it
over and over again for every patch.
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: gcc and NULL function pointers.
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Date: 24 Jun 91 18:10:25 GMT
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