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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the nil pointer is not zero
Message-ID: <14459@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:43:19 GMT
References: <7131@castle.ed.ac.uk> <s64421.658489804@zeus> <27636@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <27636@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>On computers on which address location zero has `interesting' contents ...

One implementation possibility is to use the address of some reserved
object in the run-time library for the null pointer.