On a related note. Have you ever perceived medieval scholars arguing about the exact number of angels on a needle as a completely nonsensical and ridiculous farce?
Now consider this. There are real people in this world arguing whether NULL - NULL should be equal to zero in C. Because right now, as the standard stands, this is apparently not the case. And yes, these people are paid to do this.
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/11/making-memcpynull-null-0-well-defined#null_pointer_arithmetic
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