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From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: references to dereferenced null pointers
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Date: 15 Mar 90 02:32:09 GMT
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Henry's observation on MSDOS and Doug's comments about the
shortcomings of the Intel architecture are both very well taken.

On at least one such system that I am forced to deal with regularly,
the NULL pointer is internally represented as address F000:0000 hex.
This invariably trips up newcomers to the compiler in question,
which compiler is originally from Washington State (yes, them :-(.