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From: max@jma.UUCP (Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Referencing NULL pointers
Summary: Not the IBM RT
Message-ID: <168@jma.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 18:34:34 GMT
References: <19367@paris.ics.uci.edu> <10515@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <10515@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <19367@paris.ics.uci.edu> T.S. Hadley <hadley@icarus.ics.uci.edu> writes:
> No, dereferencing via a null pointer is never valid in C.
> <Stuff deleted>
> "benign".  By now, recent versions of UNIX should have found and fixed
> the vast majority of such bugs.

The IBM RT PC still allows deferencing on null to be "benign".
This has caused us a fair amount of grief when porting from the RT.
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