On 1/11/2017 10:32 AM, Stephan Mühlstrasser wrote:
OpenSSL does not support platforms where the memory representation of the
NULL pointer contains non-zero bytes. IIRC there are even tests for this.
Could someone from the OpenSSL team please explain the rationale for
this decision? What is the problem with using assignments with 0 or NULL
to initialize pointers?
I suspect that it was a shortcut, where they used memset() on an entire
structure, and it hopefully set pointers to NULL.
What I pointed out is that if NULL is not all zeros, this breaks.
~~~ BTW ~~~
Compilers know this. So
char *ptr = NULL;
and
char *ptr = 0;
are equivalent, even on platforms where NULL is not all zeros.
It's when you cast the ptr to an integer first that it fails.
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