On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Oleg Krupnov <oleg.krup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also heard that generally speaking NULL is not necessarily always
> equal to 0 on all architectures.

In practice, NULL is always 0. Any exceptions were ancient historical oddities 
that you can ignore.

In principle, the C language says that NULL must behave as if it were zero, but 
that the bit pattern of a null pointer in memory is not necessarily zero.

http://c-faq.com/null/machnon0.html
http://c-faq.com/null/varieties.html
http://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html


-- 
Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com     Runtime Wrangler



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