Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!uwbln!ckl From: ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: use of NULL (was: Re: uustatus - realtime uustat for HDB uucp (w/findpath)) Keywords: NULL zero 0 C Microsoft Message-ID: <1340@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 89 09:40:11 GMT References: <1167@unisec.usi.com> <5312@turnkey.TCC.COM> <1989Jan31.021121.13816@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: UniWare GmbH, Berlin Lines: 15 Can anyone please enlighten me what the discussion is about? Why at all should I ever use NULL anywhere? My impression is, that a) it does not work as one expects and b) its not needed anyway. I simply never use it and never had problems. Furthermore, I think its much more obvious to write 0, when I mean zero, ((char *) 0) when I mean a zero character pointer, etc. etc. Do I miss something? Christoph -- # include Christoph Kuenkel/UniWare GmbH Kantstr. 152, 1000 Berlin 12, West Germany ck@tub.BITNET ckl@uwbln {unido,tmpmbx,tub}!uwbln!ckl