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From: jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie
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Subject: Re: TC 2.0 odd behaviour, me or it ?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 13:26:20 GMT
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> 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).

I used to get that error with TC2.0 as well. I can't exactly say how I got
rid of it, but I found that by using full ANSI C, the problem disappeared.
I think it has something to do with declaring main() as void main() or
whatever it returns.
Hope this helps.
	John Grogan.
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