From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:54:12 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <7vpsgvf8jf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606251033030.3747@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> I suspect that both could have been made to use NULL instead to indicate 
> that no pointer exists.

As long as none of the following does not dereference the NULL
pointer that should work fine:

	- memchr(NULL, ch, 0);

        - memcmp(NULL, ptr, 0);

        - stream.next_in = NULL;
          stream.avail_in = 0;
          deflate(&stream, Z_FINISH);