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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:23:23 +0100
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 08.07.2024 12:18, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> What's superfluous to one is useful for others (e.g. for grep'ing
>>> occurrences of a null-pointer value in source codes);
>> 
>> This is been suggested twice now but I'm struggling to see why that is
>> useful.  I can see management wanting one to find all uses of a null
>> pointer constant to check that they have all been replaced by the
>> "safer" nullptr, but what's the value in searching for nullptr?
>
> Bug-tracking.

Can you say more?

-- 
Ben.