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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe, that would mean that any 0 is equivalent to the null pointer, since the null pointer is just memory address 0...

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[–] qqq@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not exactly "memory address 0"; there be dragons there. https://c-faq.com/null/index.html

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

In C that would make sense yes.

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