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From: jg@hpldola.HP.COM (Joe Gilray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: More NULL questions
Message-ID: <5950001@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 21:37:41 GMT
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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Recently I've seen some discussion on the use of NULL, there was
a lot of discussion but I still feel that I need the answers to the
following questions:

1) what is the danger with using
         struct thing *ptr;
         .
         .
         .
         if (ptr != NULL) ...
   as apposed to
         struct thing *ptr;
         .
         .
         .
         if (ptr != (struct thing *)NULL) ...
   ?

2) Is there danger using
         int a, b;
         .
         .
         .
         my_func(a, NULL, b);
   as apposed to
         int a, b;
         .
         .
         .
         my_func(a, (struct thing *)NULL, b);
   when
   a) you are using function prototypes?
   b) you are NOT using function prototypes (like me)?

Thanks for any help.

-Joe Gilray