Comment by j1elo
11 hours ago
A nitpick to your nitpick: they said "memory location". And yes, a pointer always points to a memory location. Notwithstanding that each particular region of memory locations could be mapped either to real physical memory or any other assortment of hardware.
No. Neither in the language (NULL exists) nor necessarily on real CPUs.
NULL exists on real CPUs. Maybe you meant nullptr which is a very different thing, don't confuse the two.
I don't agree. Null is an artefact of the type system and the type system evaporates at runtime. Even C's NULL macro just expands to zero which is defined in the type system as the null pointer.
Address zero exists in the CPU, but that's not the null pointer, that's an embarrassment if you happen to need to talk about address zero in a language where that has the same spelling as a null pointer because you can't say what you meant.
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You can point to a register which is certainly not memory.