summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2024-04-07 13:41:34 -0500
committerCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2024-04-07 13:41:34 -0500
commit754bbf7a25a8dda49b5d08ef0d0443bbf5af0e36 (patch)
treef1190704f78f04a2b0b4c977d20fe96a828377f1 /devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html
new repository
Diffstat (limited to 'devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html')
-rw-r--r--devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html47
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html b/devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fc9462a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devdocs/c/types%2Fnull.html
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+ <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">NULL</h1> <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;locale.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;stddef.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;stdlib.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;string.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;time.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;wchar.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl"> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> <pre data-language="c">#define NULL /*implementation-defined*/</pre>
+</td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> </tr> </table> <p>The macro <code>NULL</code> is an implementation-defined null pointer constant, which may be</p>
+<ul>
+<li> an integer <a href="../language/constant_expression#Integer_constant_expression" title="c/language/constant expression">constant expression</a> with the value <code>​0​</code> </li>
+<li> an integer constant expression with the value <code>​0​</code> <a href="../language/conversion#Pointer_conversions" title="c/language/conversion">cast to the type</a> <code>void*</code> </li>
+</ul> <table class="t-rev-begin"> <tr class="t-rev t-since-c23">
+<td> <ul><li> predefined constant <a href="../language/nullptr" title="c/language/nullptr"><code>nullptr</code></a> </li></ul> </td> <td><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c23">(since C23)</span></td>
+</tr> </table> <p>A null pointer constant may be <a href="../language/conversion#Pointer_conversions" title="c/language/conversion">converted</a> to any pointer type; such conversion results in the null pointer value of that type.</p>
+<h3 id="Possible_implementation"> Possible implementation</h3> <table class="eq-fun-cpp-table"> <tr> <td> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">// C++ compatible:
+#define NULL 0
+// C++ incompatible:
+#define NULL (10*2 - 20)
+#define NULL ((void*)0)
+// since C23 (compatible with C++11 and later)
+#define NULL nullptr</pre></div> </td>
+</tr>
+</table> <h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;inttypes.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdint.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ // any kind of pointer can be set to NULL
+ int* p = NULL;
+ struct S *s = NULL;
+ void(*f)(int, double) = NULL;
+ printf("%p %p %p\n", (void*)p, (void*)s, (void*)(long)f);
+
+ // many pointer-returning functions use null pointers to indicate error
+ char *ptr = malloc(0xFULL);
+ if (ptr == NULL)
+ printf("Out of memory");
+ else
+ printf("ptr = %#" PRIxPTR"\n", (uintptr_t)ptr);
+ free(ptr);
+}</pre></div> <p>Possible output:</p>
+<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">(nil) (nil) (nil)
+ptr = 0xc001cafe</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="nullptr_t" title="c/types/nullptr t"> <span class="t-lines"><span>nullptr_t</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c23">(C23)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> the type of the predefined null pointer constant <a href="../language/nullptr" title="c/language/nullptr"><code>nullptr</code></a> <br> <span class="t-mark">(typedef)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/NULL" title="cpp/types/NULL">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>NULL</code> </td>
+</tr> </table> <div class="_attribution">
+ <p class="_attribution-p">
+ &copy; cppreference.com<br>Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Unported License v3.0.<br>
+ <a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/NULL" class="_attribution-link">https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/NULL</a>
+ </p>
+</div>