[tz] [PATCH 1/3] Assume C89.

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Fri Oct 12 21:53:23 UTC 2012


Jonathan M Davis said:
>> Makes no difference; NULL is just a macro that translates to 0, sometimes
>> with a mostly-unnecessary cast to void*.
> Actually, I've heard of systems where it _did_ differ for some bizarre reason 
> (which I think is why some recommend that you always use 0 and never NULL), 

This is never the case for an implementation conforming to any of C90, C94, or
C99.

> which resulted in very bizarre behavior if you checked pointers for true or 
> false directly or mixed 0 and NULL.

That sounds like a problem with C++, where you can't safely use "(void *)
0" as a null pointer.

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