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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: SIMPLE malloc & pointer question
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Date: 9 Aug 90 03:56:06 GMT
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In article <7206@helios.TAMU.EDU> jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) writes:
>>>main() {
>>>  int *a,*b;

There must have been some static (:-) affecting my mind when I replied:
>>Initially, a and b are NULL pointers (do not point to anything usable).
(But I got the rest of it right.)

In article <MCDANIEL.90Aug7105551@dolphin.adi.com> mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) writes:
>Not NULL (which is a definite value), undefined.
Yes, thank you.  (And he didn't even flame me.)
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