Change the definition of NULL on ia64 (for LP64 compilations) from

an int constant to a long constant. This change improves consistency
in the following two ways:
1. The first 8 arguments are always passed in registers on ia64, which
   by virtue of the generated code implicitly widens ints to longs and
   allows the use of an 32-bit integral type for 64-bit arguments.
   Subsequent arguments are passed onto the memory stack, which does
   not exhibit the same behaviour and consequently do not allow this.
   In practice this means that variadic functions taking pointers
   and given NULL (without cast) work as long as the NULL is passed
   in one of the first 8 arguments. A SIGSEGV is more likely the
   result if such would be done for stack-based arguments. This is
   due to the fact that the upper 4 bytes remain undefined.
2. All 64-bit platforms that FreeBSD supports, with the obvious
   exception of ia64, allow 32-bit integral types (specifically NULL)
   when 64-bit pointers are expected in variadic functions by way of
   how the compiler generates code. As such, code that works correctly
   (whether rightfully so or not) on any platform other than ia64, may
   fail on ia64.

To more easily allow tweaking of the definition of NULL, this commit
removes the 12 definitions in the various headers and puts it in a
new header that can be included whenever NULL is to be made visible.

This commit fixes GNOME, emacs, xemacs and a whole bunch of ports
that I don't particularly care about at this time...

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/sys/_null.h b/sys/sys/_null.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..682fea4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys/sys/_null.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2003 Marcel Moolenaar
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ * are met:
+ *
+ * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
+ * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
+ * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+ * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+ * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+ * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+ * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+ * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+ * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ *
+ * $FreeBSD$
+ */
+
+#ifndef NULL
+
+#ifdef __LP64__
+#define	NULL	0L
+#else
+#define	NULL	0
+#endif
+
+#endif