> From: Felix Oxley <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > > But is there any point in declaring > > const char *foo = ""; > > isn't this equivalent to: > > char *foo; Actually, I think char *foo; is more nearly equivalent to char *foo = NULL; Assigning foo to the empty string in the declaration guarentees that you can dereference the pointer (by comparing strings, for example) without getting a NULL-pointer exception (though I'm not sure that you necessarily get an exception in the kernel, but the principal is the same). -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
