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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Creating pointer with all bits 0 (was: Referencing NULL pointers)
Message-ID: <1104@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 16:49:58 GMT
References: <1989Aug31.052756.18524@sq.sq.com>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <1989Aug31.052756.18524@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
> 
>       int *p;
>       memset ((void *) p, 0, sizeof p);

This would probably drop core on most systems.  You probably want to 
do something like:

       memset ((void *) &p, 0, sizeof p);
                        ^^

> Or bzero() if you have that and not memset(), or for that matter
> there's the trickier but more universally available way:
> 
>       strncpy ((char *) p, "", sizeof p);

Yet again, you need the & on the p.



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