Changed definition of the possibile return value "NULL" #18
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Hello,
Please submit patches as per
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html
That said, the language you propose is rather nonstandard [1], so I'm a
little dubious about this proposal. But, perhaps if you post a patch as
above, some others might chime in with useful opinions.
Thanks,
Michael
[1] The C standard very consistently uses "null pointer", but SUS/POSIX
seem to pretty freely use "NULL" in the same sense as often appears in
manual pages.
…On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 13:55, TheAngusMcFire ***@***.***> wrote:
Hi, I teach (student assistant) Systems Level Programming on the Technical
Univerity of Graz.
I noticed students get confused by the difference 0 and NULL. To make sure
NULL is not confused with an actual type value, which can be returned by
malloc/calloc... I would change the "returns NULL" to "a value equal to
NULL".
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#18
Commit Summary
- Changed definition of the possibile return value "NULL"
File Changes
- *M* man3/malloc.3
<https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages/pull/18/files#diff-fe900c219dc9d00a61f86bba257c58d0>
(26)
Patch Links:
- https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages/pull/18.patch
- https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages/pull/18.diff
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Hi, I teach (student assistant) Systems Level Programming on the Technical Univerity of Graz.
I noticed students get confused by the difference 0 and NULL. To make sure NULL is not confused with an actual type value, which can be returned by malloc/calloc... I would change the "returns NULL" to "a value equal to NULL".