[tex-live] Re: [tex-implementors] Re: bug in etex
Olaf Weber
olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 14 18:34:57 CEST 2004
Giuseppe Bilotta writes:
> I find it amusing that on LKML there is a similar discussion on
> NULL vs 0 in C code ... if null (in Pascal) is supposed to be
> the null pointer in C, then the web2c conversion should take
> care of it and translate null to NULL or 0 ...
In the TeX sources, "pointers" are usually indexes into the mem array,
therefore always integers from the C point of view. Thus it is never
appropriate to translate TeX's |null| into C's NULL.
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Olaf Weber
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