Zero/nil/NULL/NUL/0/...

[Noam Mendelson]

In article <GNAT.91Apr20183721 at kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> gnat at kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
>I have read the FAQ and this doesn't seem to be what I'm after.  What I
>am looking for is an explicit list of things which 0 (zero decimal, zero
>octal, zero hexadecimal, etc) stand for.  So far I have :
>  -> The number zero (in any base)
>  -> The unused pointer (in some machines)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Unused pointers are not automatically initialized to NULL.

>  -> The null character (ASCII, etc)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On most but not all machines.

>  -> End of file (EOF)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, EOF is implementation-dependent but is usually == -1.

>  -> Not true (FALSE)

If you look through your's machines header files, you'll find quite a lot
of things which are #def'ed to zero.  So what?

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