NULL as a pointer value...

[Andrew Stewart]

I am in the depths of yet another discussion about types in C, and I'm
looking for comments, etc. on this:
	Which is better coding style,
		char	*x; .....  x = (char *)NULL;
	or
		char	*x; .....  x = NULL;
I am unhappy about NULL as a polymorphic pointer type, since it's actually
just a macro, *but* is that relevant? K&R say (can't recall where) that
NULL is an illegal pointer for *any* object, and yet
		x = NULL; .... y = *x;
will not blow up, unless you do clever things with page 0.
And what about
		return((char *)NULL);
	or
		return(NULL);

This may have been aired before - if so, forgive me - but it seems
rather interesting.

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