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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 16:45:14 +0200
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On 06.07.2024 16:42, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 06.07.2024 16:04, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> We also used 0 as "universal" pointer value regularly without problems.
>>
>> Whereas I spent 6 years programming on an architecture[*] where a
>> null pointer was represented in hardware by the value 0xc0eeeeee. 
> 
> Yes, but a 0 pointer value has not the meaning of an int value 0.

(Probably badly worded.)

I meant; the internal binary representation of a 0 pointer value
has not necessarily the internal binary representation of an int
value 0. (So you could use it also in architectures like the one
you mention.)

Janis

> 
>> I always
>> use the NULL macro in both C and C++ code.
>>
>> [*] now obsolete.
>>
>