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Stefan Farfeleder writes:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 03:46:35PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > -#define        NULL    0L
> > +#define        NULL    (0L)
> 
> What's the point of parenthesizing 0L?

Its two lexical elements. I got into the habit of doing that when a
macro replacement bit me some years ago. It is a very unimportant part
of the patch. :-)

M
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