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From: Gianni Mariani <gianni@mariani.ws>
Subject: Re: c++/10541: Is NULL a valid pointer-type template argument?
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The following reply was made to PR c++/10541; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gianni Mariani <gianni@mariani.ws>
To: bangerth@dealii.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
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Subject: Re: c++/10541: Is NULL a valid pointer-type template argument?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:18:25 -0700

 bangerth@dealii.org wrote:
 
 >    Your first case is invalid, since 0 is of type int,
 >
 
 I remember reading a while back that C/C++ considers the value 0 to be a 
 valid value for any pointer type.  Hence 0 CAN BE of type char *.
 
 Other compilers seem to take this value.