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From: np4@prism.gatech.EDU (POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: TC 2.0 odd behaviour, me or it ?
Message-ID: <16962@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Nov 90 13:30:17 GMT
References: <7129@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <7129@castle.ed.ac.uk> djm@castle.ed.ac.uk (D Murphy) writes:
>I have a program compiled under TC 2.0 which executes perfectly except
>that it generates a Null pointer assignment AFTER the last instruction
>(as determined by putting a puts() in and getting the error message
>after the intentonal one).
>
>Anyone know why this might be happening ?
>
>Murff...

As I understand it, the TC runtime system checks location 0:0 at exit time to
see if it was modified. If so, it prints the warning message. Thus, even
though the message occurs at the end of the program, the actual Null pointer
assignment could occur any anywhere in the program.
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POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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