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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics
Message-ID: <3072@solo4.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Aug 89 15:22:32 GMT
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kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
\...  Any compiler that doesn't
\promote pointers in comparisons with integers has a serious bug.

No, YOU have a serious bug!

	foo	*p;

	if (p == 0)

means

	if (<bit pattern of p> == <bit pattern of nil pointer of type foo *>)

and not

	if (<integer promotion of p> == 0)
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