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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Referencing NULL pointers
Message-ID: <613@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:55:55 GMT
References: <19367@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <19367@paris.ics.uci.edu>, by hadley@ics.uci.edu (T.S. Hadley):
>    By NULL pointer referencing I mean: consider the C frags:
>       
>       char	*s = (char *) 0, t[10];
>       strcpy(t, s);
>    
>    On my machine (sun) these statements causes segmentation violations
>    during runtime.
> 
>    Apparantly, on other machines this is perfectly valid, since I see
>    quite a lot of this in code created on certain non-sun machines.

Just remember one of the 10 commandments:

Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for surely chaos and madness await
thee at it's end.

Your sun burps if you try it. Well good for it - I wish my CP/M box at home
would do so (however int i; i = *((int *) 1); does have it's uses :-) )
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