Re: using 0 instead of NULL

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From: Warner Losh
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 20:15

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0 and NULL are the same thing.  All C compilers are required to do the
right thing when they see a 0 (or 0L).  If your C compiler doesn't,
then it is broken.

There are very specific guarantees in K&R and in the standard that
state that int *p = 0; is exactly the same as int *p=NULL.

Warner
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