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Who maintains dpkg?

Who maintains dpkg?

Posted Mar 18, 2008 20:17 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: Who maintains dpkg? by dw
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?

They're also adding a specific null pointer constant, nullptr, to the next version of C++ to
make all the "but 0 isn't a pointer" weenies happy.


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Who maintains dpkg?

Posted Mar 18, 2008 21:07 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's just bowing to the inevitable: virtually every vendor already has 
such a constant, under some name or other (including GCC). You need it for 
non-confusing overload resolution anyway.

(Plus, to be honest, the overloading of the integer 0 with a specific 
pointer meaning, with the unique stipulation that it need not be 
all-bits-zero, with the corresponding `pointer context' stuff, was a big 
mistake from the start.)

Who maintains dpkg?

Posted Mar 18, 2008 21:19 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

They're also adding a specific null pointer constant, nullptr, to the next version of C++ to make all the "but 0 isn't a pointer" weenies happy.

g++ has had something like that for quite some time now.

Greg

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