eliminating null pointer checks on mmu-less machines

Sat Sep 13 16:57:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Cedric" == Cedric Berger <cedric@berger.to> writes:

Cedric> It could be possible to redefine NULL to be something different
Cedric> from 0. I've no idea how expensive that would be, but I suspect
Cedric> it is very expensive.
Yeah, I think this is the sort of change that would be impractical.
gcc doesn't support this, and I'd imagine sweeping changes might be
necessary to change that.
Tom