On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 16Nov2009 10:54, Rick Stevens <ri...@nerd.com> wrote:
| Another example is that a null pointer (or the value "NUL") is not
| necessarily zero, only that it is guaranteed to not point at any valid
| datum.
Actually, it requires it to behave like 0 in an arithmetic context.
More precisely, it's required to behave like 0 in a boolean context.
It's not allowed in any other arithmetic context.
1 + ptr is invalid if ptr is null.
1 + !!ptr is 1 if ptr is null.
But it _doesn't_ require it to be stored as a zero in the machine
memory. That's why I cringe whenever I see someone use calloc() or
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