From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T01:18:19+09:00
Subject: Smoking out C extension mistakes

Hi all,

Every once in a while I'll hit a segfault that turns out to be caused by 
accidentally passing a C datatype to a macro like NIL_P (which, naturally, I 
can't duplicate with a simple example, but recently occurred in win32-eventlog).

Anyhoo, say I have something like this:

char* foo = "hello";
if(NIL_P(foo)) /* whoops */
    ...

I noticed that even compiling with gcc using -Wall -W I still don't see a 
warning.  Is this because it's a macro?  Is there a gcc option I can use to 
help me smoke these sorts of mistakes out?

Thanks,

Dan