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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Referencing NULL pointers
Message-ID: <10525@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jul 89 05:35:10 GMT
References: <19367@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1891@auspex.auspex.com> <32UP02Eg3d=801@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <32UP02Eg3d=801@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> vohra@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (KC) writes:
>Try a rewrite: "x= ((struct somestruct *)0)->somefield".

That's not valid C either.

>Anyway, it is the operating system that makes the action that the
>process takes valid or invalid.

No, there IS a C language definition or two.