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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] freevxfs: minor cleanups
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Hi, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> The rationale for this is that since NULL is not guaranteed to be zero
> by the C standard

... as opposed to the other 632719 places in the kernel source where
we do the exact same thing?

If Linux ever gets ported to an architecture where NULL is not
all-bits-zero, the resulting patch will be so damn huge that the
cleanliness-or-not of freevxfs will be the *least* of our worries.

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