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>> (Of course, that assumes NULL is 0, but I don't think I've run into any
>> architecture so braindead as to not have NULL=0.)
>
> It has nothing to do with machine architecture. The C standard
> says 0 coerces to the null pointer. NULL, defined in <stddef.h>,
> is part of the library, not the language.

To put it more strongly. this is not a legal C source file.
        char *s = NULL;
But this is.
        char *s = 0;

Doug