Re: quartz: Check allocation failure and clear memoryinDSound Renderer

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Felix Nawothnig"  wrote:
> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > > However, note that NULL is not always all binary zero in memory. :)
> >
> > I don't believe it's true since NULL is defined as (void *)0.
>
> Actually it may aswell be just 0 in C. Just in C++ it's defined to be 
> (void *)0. But even with just 0 an assignment/compare/whatever will get 
> you an implicit typecast which makes the compiler generate any necessary 
> conversion.
>
> See http://c-faq.com/null/

Have you read it at all? NULL is guaranteed to be 0 in all contexts.

If some C++ compiler decides to generate not 0 data while converting/casting
a NULL pointer, it should be declared broken.