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Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:

> Could you please elaborate the rules of English in which "An integer
> constant expresion with the value 0 [...] is called a null pointer
> constant" does not mean that 0 is a null pointer?

Null pointer != null pointer constant.  The latter is rather a syntactical
construct without a real value.  The process of converting a null pointer
constant to a null pointer is the point where the decision is made about
the final value and type.

Andreas.

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