Thread: 'NULL' undeclared (first use this function)

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    >I see your point swoopy but you know what I meant. Sorry if I didn't elaborate enough.
    Well, Bjarne Stroustrup indeed prefers 0. I've always liked NULL, so I can tell the variable is a pointer immediately. But I guess nullptr will soon be here, so the point will then be moot.

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    Actually, NULL is defined in <cstddef>, so we might as well include that standard header instead of defining NULL ourselves.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
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    Quote Originally Posted by lruc View Post
    0 is c++:NULL is c.
    It's as simple as that.
    Is not.
    NULL exists in both C and C++. What it is defined as is irrelevant.
    The purpose of NULL hasn't changed in C++.
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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