Re: using literal zero for NULL

["Jon A. Cruz" <jon joncruz org>]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * Jon A. Cruz <jon joncruz org> schrieb:
>
> > > I've never worked out why anybody needs to type "0" when they could
> > > type
> > > "NULL". Given all the random segfaults, and type errors, and
> > > readability
> > > concerns and whatnot, are your fingers _really_ that lazy?
> >
> > Some of it is more of a C++ thing, rather than pure C. And there was,
> > at least for a while, a period where using 0 for C++ solved a lot
> > more problems.
>
> In other words: people used broken C++ compilers ?

Not really.

In other words, C++ is a fair bit different than C. (Remember, it  
used to be that incompatible ABI was a design goal of C++, etc.)