From: Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@isode.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: 0 vs. NULL (RE: Worrisome warnings after recent patches)
Date: 04 Mar 1999 10:35:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vbhfs1v8yj.fsf@snake.isode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bernd Eggink's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 09:42:52 +0100"
Bernd Eggink <eggink@uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > What is the point of using NULL to initialize null pointer. The only
> > portable and official way is to use `0'(zero), that is garanteed to be
> > converted to whatever representation null pointer has on a given system.
>
> No, this applies to C++ only, not to C. In C you should use the NULL
> macro or (void*)0.
There's an issue with arguments to functions which don't have
prototypes, but apart from that, the literal 0 as a pointer should be
fine in C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-04 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-04 7:50 Worrisome warnings after recent patches Sven Wischnowsky
1999-03-04 8:31 ` 0 vs. NULL (RE: Worrisome warnings after recent patches) Andrej Borsenkow
1999-03-04 8:42 ` Bernd Eggink
1999-03-04 10:35 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1999-03-04 10:42 Sven Wischnowsky
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