Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am So., 3. Jan. 2016 um 16:46 Uhr:

> Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > There was no consensus on this change.
>
> What are the problems with it? Although Eli and I tweaked it later to fix
> some
> warnings and sign-extension issues and make it go a bit faster, I didn't
> see any
> major issues with the basic idea.
>
>
- From a user's perspective, it removes NULL as a sentinel value to signal
an error.
- From a developer perspective, it adds low-level complexity,
bit-twiddling, and possibly undefined behavior to a module that should only
contain glue code between two interfaces.