Re: NULL pointers.

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:11, Jack Repenning wrote:
> > struct some_complex_struct __tmp = { 0 };
>
> Doesn't this fail for the case where the _first_ field of
> some_complex_struct is a pointer, and the local architecture does
> something inane with NULL?

No, because zero (the constant) implicitly casted to a pointer type is
always the null pointer.

(But I think the answer is that we don't want to solve this problem.
Still, an interesting trick.)

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Received on Tue Oct 14 03:50:26 2003