64bit NULL?

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:49:51PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 
> According to ISO-C NULL is a symbol that
> defines a null pointer so that:
> 
> 	execl(..., NULL)
> 
> appears to be legal, yet will probably cause failure on FreeBSD-sparc64.

No, NULL is an implementation-defined null pointer constant, not a null
pointer. The difference is that a null pointer constant is an integer
constant expression that evaluates to zero (optionally cast to void*),
and a null pointer is a null pointer constant converted to a pointer type
(which might involve changes in representation). Therefore using a bare
NULL to terminate the execl argument list is not in general legal.

Tony.
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