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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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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:43:30 GMT
>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) boring babbled:
>>
>>> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 11/20/2024 2:33 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/20/2024 2:11 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Actually, for some reason, this makes me think of nullptr = 0 =
>>>> NULL wrt NULL can be 0xdeadbeefbeefdead?
>>>
>>> I've worked with systems where the NULL pointer value was not
>>> zero.
>>>
>>> That's why C has a symbolic constant for NULL.
>>
>> Thats a bit iffy given the number of devs - and I include myself -
>> who often use !<whatever> in place of <whatever> == NULL and
>> similarly <whatever> instead of <whatever> != NULL.
>
> No, it's not iffy, that's just bad coding practice on your part.

That is a commonly held view, but I've never seen any defense
offered for it other than folklore.