review (S) for 6442502

Tom Rodriguez Thomas.Rodriguez at Sun.COM
Wed Feb 4 19:07:06 PST 2009


There's only one kind of NULL in the type system and that's  
TypePtr::NULL_PTR which is what null() returns for every kind of  
pointer.  It seems obfuscating to use something other than null() in  
that case doesn't it?

tom

On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

> Tom,
>
> null() is defined as zerocon(T_OBJECT) but
> basic type for TypeRawPtr is T_ADDRESS.
> To be consistent use zerocon(T_ADDRESS) instead of null().
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>> http://webrev.invokedynamic.info/never/6442502




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