Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 2, 2007 2:04 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux by nix
Parent article: Quote of the week

And here we see Linus himself suggesting almost the same thing. No, it's not that bad, since it's a valid pointer, but it's close enough :)

Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 3, 2007 2:08 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The &bad_ctype is non-tasteless, I'd say. It's *transparent* and you can
easily tell what it's doing when you read the code. And it doesn't dump
core if you dereference it :)