Eclipse CDT “Symbol NULL could not be resolved”

Question

I just installed Eclipse CDT with MinGW. All the environment variables are set, includes, etc. Tried running a hello world and everyth

Answer 1

I just fixed an error like this and thought as no one else had found this solution I'd post it. I found that the stdlib had declared NULL as ___need_NULL in my AVR GCC compiler. This caused an error in Eclipse IDE. The error was however caused by Coden Analysis not finding the anomaly and so winging that the symbol could not be found. You can turn Coden off in Preferences under "General -> Startup/Shutdown" or change its behaviour in C/C++ Code analysis.

This may explain the sometimes random nature others are experiencing