On 08/15/2007 12:20 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> On Aug 15 2007 11:58, Rene Herman wrote:
>>>>>>> NULL is not 0 though.
>>>>>> It is.  Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,

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>> He said the null _pointer_ isn't guaranteed to be all-bits zero. And it
>> isn't. Read the standard or the faq.
> 
> 0 is all-bits-zero.
> NULL is 0. ("It is.", above)

NULL is a define. It does not have a binary presentation. He was talking 
about the representation of the null pointer, not of 0.

Retarded language lawyering over in comp.lang.c please where all the other 
people who think they just have to be brilliant for having been able to read 
a standards documents go to wank off.

Rene.
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