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Asked: 2026-06-01T06:11:13+00:00

Going through some documentation on modifying CGImageRef data, I came across a strange example

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Going through some documentation on modifying CGImageRef data, I came across a strange example — It went something along the lines of this pseudocode:

void *data = Allocate space for data;
if (data != NULL) Manipulate data;
if (data) Free data;

This got me wondering! What is the difference between the boolean operation if (data != NULL) and the boolean operation if (data).

To be more specific, how do pointers behave in Objective C when they are treated as booleans? Attempting to google this, I only found myriads of questions relating to pointers-to-booleans, as opposed to pointers being evaluated as booleans.

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  1. Editorial Team

    They’re exactly the same. Non-zero values of any type are interpreted as “true” in C, and by extension in Objective-C. C doesn’t even have a boolean type.

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