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Re:The Future That Never Was by _a_a_a_ on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:42PM (#39619451)
> resulting in the compiler having to guess if you really meant 0 or whatever NULL

IIRC you had to cast 0 to a pointer, which made it a null pointer as distinct from arithmetic zero. Or am I confusing myself... It's been a while.

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Re:The Future That Never Was by bluGill on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:02PM (#39622879)
0 is a valid pointer on some systems. So 0 could be address 0 or whatever NULL was (0xeeeeeee or something equally weird)
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