> I bet that around 99% of C code in the real world assumes that NULL == 0. That is the correct assumption as 0 is interpreted as a null pointer constant when

> I bet that around 99% of C code in the real world assumes that NULL == 0. That is the correct assumption as 0 is interpreted as a null pointer constant when interpreted as a pointer. As far as I understand you have to do something like memset(ptr,0,sizeof(int*)) to bypass this conversion and get a pointer to the memory location 0 instead of a NULL pointer.