1 /* Return a NULL pointer, without letting the compiler know it. 2 Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or 7 (at your option) any later version. 8 9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 12 GNU General Public License for more details. 13 14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ 16 17 #include <stdlib.h> 18 19 /* Return NULL. 20 Usual compilers are not able to infer something about the return value. */ 21 static void * 22 null_ptr (void) /* */ 23 { 24 unsigned int x = rand (); 25 unsigned int y = x * x; 26 if (y & 2) 27 return (void *) -1; 28 else 29 return (void *) 0; 30 } 31 32 /* If you want to know why this always returns NULL, read 33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_residue#Prime_power_modulus . */