[vtk-developers] Request for a gentler tone in commit message verbiage...

[Robert Maynard]

Actually the definition of NULL is left up to each compiler. The C++11
draft states "The macro NULL < snip> is an implementation-defined C++
null pointer constant"

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 10:08 AM, David Cole via vtk-developers wrote:
>> That in some implementations NULL is defined simply as 0. Stupidly,
>> but still a fact.
>>
>> Even in VS 2013, with __cplusplus defined, NULL is simply #define'd to 0.
>
> IIRC the C++ standard *requires* that NULL be just "0".
> Its conversion problems are why C++11 introduced nullptr.
>
> -Brad
>
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