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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Is EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE necessary?
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> [...] The main reason for NULL is that some implementations
> thought it would be better for type safety to use (void*)0.

The problem with that theory is NULL predates both C++ and also
any introduction of void or the void* type.