"Mark A. Odell" <nospam@embeddedfw.com> wrote in
news:Xns94018E057A0BDCopyrightMarkOdell@130.133.1. 4:

I meant to post this in comp.lang.c. I ended up doing so and I'll answer
my post here with the answers received there.

> Is NULL guaranteed to evaluate 'not true', e.g. is it completely safe
> and portable to write:

Yes.

> char *pFoo = malloc(1024);
> if (pFoo)
> {

This is safe.

> /* use pFoo
> */
> free(pFoo);
> }
>
> Or must I check against NULL explicitly as in:
>
> if (pFoo != NULL) ...

No, they are equivalent.

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