Re: using 0 instead of NULL

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From: Per Bothner
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 20:09

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In article <1991Mar6.201539.17401@Solbourne.COM> imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes:
>0 and NULL are the same thing.

Essentially. However, ANSI allows NULL to be defined as (void*)0.
This allows the compiler to warn about certain kinds of mismatches.

Whatever the definition of NULL (0 or 0L or (void*)0),
I think it is stylistically a good idea to use NULL rather than 0.
This MAY have been what the original poster meant.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
bothner@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Dept, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

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