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Name: Gushie
Status: Other
Age: 30s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 2001
Question:
What does the expression: 
(d == char *) 0
actually do?


Replies:
I am going to assume you are talking about the C language here. If not, then ignore this answer.

This should cause a compiler error. The parenthesis are in the wrong place, so when the compiler reads the char * it should give an error. The way it is written, the char * cannot be resolved as a type declaration or a type cast.

If it does not, you would have to check with the guys who wrote the compiler to see what they are doing, and get them to fix it.

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--Eric Tolman

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