Re: [exim] More integer annoyances in 4.65

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] More integer annoyances in 4.65


Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:55:25PM +0100, David Saez Padros said:
>
>> Hi !!
>>
>>
>>> I hate to agree with Perkel, but if we're already doing a conversion
>>> from null char pointer to empty char string, it really doesn't seem any
>>> different to do the same thing for integer comparison.
>>>
>> but exim does not know anything about null pointers !! so we are not
>> doing any conversion from null char pointer to empty char string.
>>
>
> My only point was that exim is, itself, written in C. It already
> implicitly casts an uninitialized variable to the emptry string when
> evaluated in string context, so it really doesn't seem like much of a
> stretch to cast an uninitialized variable to 0 when in integer context.
>


Well I hate to agree with Gran but I think he's right.