Re: question about nullptr

On 7/10/2024 6:12 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
 

On 7/9/2024 2:21 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
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On 2024-07-08, Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

[...]

We could patch GCC to have a -Wnull-ptr-zero, which will give you a
diagnostic for every occurrence of a zero valued integer expression that
becomes a null pointer constant rather than an integer or floating-point
value (and that isn't cast to pointer type).

Sure.
I once tried to persuade the compiler team where I worked to write a
"tool box" for diagnostics that would have a meta-language in which
users could describe the conditions that wanted to be diagnosed.  The
idea was half-baked so it never went anywhere.

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No funding?

 No.  As I said the idea was half-baked.  I could not pin it down and
nether could anyone else.  Without a clear specification, it could not
go forward.
 

shit happens! Sometimes, those half-baked ideas can turn out to be interesting.