Re: NULL pointers.

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, 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?

Nope. It is the C compiler, not the preprocessor that translates the
unadorned "0" to a "NULL" pointer. If, for example, 0x80000000 were NULL
on an x86, then the statement:

   char *p_foo = 0;

would be translated by the compiler as:

   MOV [p_foo], 80000000h

L8r,
Mark G.

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Received on Wed Oct 15 04:57:46 2003