Using NULL as an illegal pointer

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

You can argue the merits of ``char *foo = NULL;'' versus ``char
*foo = (char *)NULL;'' 'til you're blue in the face, but the C
language specification requires that assignments (and return values)
be of the same type as the left hand side of the assignment (or
the type of the function).  If a C compiler generate different code
for

	char *func() { return 0; }

and

	char *func() { return (char *) 0; }

then it is broken.
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