0 vs NULL - a note

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 07:12:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:58:41PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> This is simply a FYI for those interested.
> 
> http://www.multimania.com/pierret/cpp212.htm
> may precende the standard ratification as it still tests for new
> returning 0. It makes an excellent point about NULL vs 0 in assignments.
> 
> Anyway, for clarity: Both 0 and NULL are acceptable in setup.exe. 

And another note:

	if (ptr)

and

	if (!ptr)

avoid all confusion about 0 vs. NULL.

Corinna

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