Re: question about nullptr

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> writes:
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On 07/06/24 7:04 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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Whereas I spent 6 years programming on an architecture[*] where a
null pointer was represented in hardware by the value 0xc0eeeeee.  I always
use the NULL macro in both C and C++ code.

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But that achieved absolutely nothing over using plain `0` in the source
code.
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The `NULL` you used was still defined as `0` (in C++ libs) and 0 or
`(void *) 0` (in C libs).

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Which ambiguity is yet another reason to use the NULL or nullptr
tokens.

The definition of NULL is ambiguous and that is a reason in
/favor/ of using NULL?  Not to me it isn't.