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You may notice that null pointers are marked variously in one of four ways: 0, 0L, NULL and nullptr. In C, NULL is defined as a null void pointer. In C++, more type safety is possible due to stricter type checking. Modern C++11 implementations (and all C++14 implementations) define NULL to equal the special value nullptr. Nullptr can be automatically cast to boolean false, but a cast to an integer type will fail. This is useful to avoid accidentally. Older C++ implementations before c++11 simply defined NULL to 0L or 0, which provides no additional type safety - one could assign it to an integer variable, which is obviously wrong. For code which does not need to support outdated compilers the best choice is nullptr.