C++ definition of NULL

[Chad Gatesman]

Doug Semler wrote:

> Correct ,me if I'm wrong, but the standard says NULL is implementation
> defined, with
> (footnoted) possible values being 0 or 0L but not (void *)0

This is correct.

> You should cast, you shouldn't implicitely convert pointers to integers any
> more.... :)

The standard does not say this.  If NULL is defined as they suggested, one
would be able to be implicitly casted to a long.  I would hate to have to go
thru 1 million+ lines of code just to cast all occurances of NULL and force
users of the library to do the same.

Chad Gatesman