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@@ -965,9 +965,8 @@ rather than NULL. See the paper for reasons to avoid
NULL.
Don't use (constant expression or literal) 0 for pointers. Note that C++14 removed non-literal 0 constants from null pointer -constants, though some compilers continue to treat them as such. -For historical reasons there may be lingering uses of 0 as a -pointer.
+constants, though some compilers continue to treat them as +such.