There's NULL and then there's NUL.

NULL is defined in stddef.h, is used very widely, and is a reference to a null pointer.

NUL is different - it is the first character in the standard ASCII character set, and more importantly, it is not a standard macro. You may have to define it yourself.

To define NUL, do:

#define NUL '\0'
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June 3, 2008 - I think you are misunderstanding the error message: First use in this function means that it is only recorded as undeclared ONCE, not every time it's being used (because it's usually only ONE mistake to not declare something - and the compiler telling you that 35 times because that's how many ...
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Executing the above code gives the NULL undeclared error at main.cpp:5:12. This happens because NULL is not a built-in constant in the C or C++ languages.
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July 15, 2025 - #define NULL 0: Using #define NULL 0 line in our program, we can solve the NULL undeclared error. Below code shows its implementation: ... In newer C++(C++11 and higher):: nullptr is a built-in constant, so we can use it instead of using NULL.
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