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c++ - Are these null pointers, or are they pointers to address 0?

If I write

int zero = 0;

void *p1 = (void *)0;
void *p2 = (void *)(int)0;
void *p3 = (void *)(0 /*no-op, but does it affect the next zero?*/, 0);

void *p4 = (void *)zero;    // For reference, this is a pointer to address zero
void *p5 = 0;               // For reference, this is a null pointer
void *p6 = NULL;            // For reference, this is a null pointer
void *p7 = nullptr;         // For reference, this is a null pointer (C++11)

static const int static_zero_1 = 0;       // Is this a literal zero when used?
static const int static_zero_2 = 1 - 1;   // No "literals 0" per se... is it?
void *p8 = (void *)static_zero_1;   // I have seen weird substitution rules...
void *p9 = (void *)static_zero_2;   // do they apply for NULL too?

which of p1, p2, and p3 (edit: I added p8 and p9) would be null pointers (i.e. == NULL, may or may not be address zero), and which of them would be pointers with the address zero (may or may not be == NULL)?

If the answer is different in C and C++, what is it in each of them?

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And to make Andy's answer complete with C:

From the C99 Standard:

6.3.2.3 Pointers

1 A pointer to void may be converted to or from a pointer to any incomplete or object type. A pointer to any incomplete or object type may be converted to a pointer to void and back again; the result shall compare equal to the original pointer.

3 An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void *, is called a null pointer constant. 55) If a null pointer constant is converted to a pointer type, the resulting pointer, called a null pointer, is guaranteed to compare unequal to a pointer to any object or function.

So any integer constant expression which evaluates to 0 is a null pointer constant and can be converted to a NULL pointer. Effectively in your example, all pointers through except p4, p8 and p9 are null pointers. p4, p8 and p9 need not be null pointers since their initialization is not a constant expression because it contains variables (even if const qualified).

Here's another answer about NULL in C++, for the record.


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