[vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/8] Fix an implicit conversion from pointer to bool

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi,

On Friday 13 March 2015 16:56:56 Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> This fix an implicit conversion from pointer to bool.

why is this patch necessary? An expression like

  if (pointer)
  {
  }

is completely valid and no compiler should warn about it. It tests if
the pointer has a value different from NULL.

Would

-         || (   (a_pVCpu) /*!= NULL*/ \
+         || (   a_pVCpu \

fix the compiler warning as well?

Frank
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