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C++ Language/Indirection/TypedNull
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The traditional NULL macro was really just a int with value 0.
This is commonly used as a special value assigned to a pointer variable, having the semantic meaning of "not pointing at anything" (because computers will never try to use their memory at address 0).
Modern C++ uses nullptr instead of NULL, because nullptr has a dedicated std::nullptr_t type.
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