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"The C Programming Language", Kernighan and Ritchie, 1978, page 192:

Appendix A, section 7.14 "Assignment operators":

"However, it is guaranteed that assignment of the constant 0 to a pointer
will produce a null pointer distinguishable from a pointer to any object."