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“Backporting” nullptr to C++-pre-C++0x programs

How to define nullptr for supporting both C++03 and C++11?

Does below code is compiled with both C++03 and C++11 compiles without change the meaning of nullptr in C++11 compiler?

#include <cstddef>

#if !defined(nullptr)
#define nullptr NULL
#endif

Answer 1

In C++11, nullptr is of type nullptr_t. One of its big advantages compared to NULL (or to 0 would say Bjarne since he does not like macros) is that between these two functions:

void foo(char*);
void foo(int);

foo(nullptr) will call the char* overload but foo(NULL) will call the int overload. So your solution may work in most of the cases, but you may have errors with functions overload.