Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!andrew
From: andrew@motto.UUCP (Andrew Walduck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Portable NULL pointers
Message-ID: <237@motto.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 17:42:46 GMT
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goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>> The Second Original Sin was the failure to make "NULL" a keyword.
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
>#define NULL (""[1])
>would that work?

No...it would probably generate a nice segment violation as it read off
the end of the array! ;-)

Try:
(""[0]) or even ([0]"") or *("")   (some of these almost look like ;-)

As for portabilty, well, thats why we use #include <stdio.h>. If NULL in
there breaks something...well either fix the code, or the compiler.

Please, don't use your own "portable" versions of NULL as sooner or later it
will break somewhere! And someone (like me) will curse you! ;-) ;-)

Andrew Walduck 
andrew@motto.UUCP (keep trying the mailer is magic!)