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[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a macro for zero in C, but they aren't literally the same thing. If you have a value which is zero, you have a value; if your value is null, then it means that you do not have a value; not even zero.

They could have just as easily made it a macro for 0xFFFF.