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do not export kernel's NULL #define to userspace
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GCC's NULL is actually __null, which allows detecting some questionable
NULL usage and warn about it.  Moreover each platform/compiler should
have its own stddef.h anyway (which is different from linux/stddef.h).

So there's no good reason to leak kernel's NULL to userspace and
override what the compiler provides.

Signed-off-by: Luboš Luňák <l.lunak@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lubos Lunak authored and torvalds committed Apr 14, 2012
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#include <linux/compiler.h>

#ifdef __KERNEL__

#undef NULL
#if defined(__cplusplus)
#define NULL 0
#else
#define NULL ((void *)0)
#endif

#ifdef __KERNEL__

enum {
false = 0,
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