nullPtr and NULL

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed Jul 17 08:40:33 EDT 2002


Sven Panne <Sven_Panne at BetaResearch.de> wrote,

> Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > The specification of nullPtr looks to me like it is not necessarily
> > the same as NULL in C. Is this intentional?
> 
> I don't think so: 0 resp. NULL is the only "special" pointer value
> in C/C++ IIRC, so this should be clarified => Manuel?

Agreed.  (We'll put an explicit statement in somewhere.)

Manuel



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