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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: HELP! Why do I get error message: "Segmentation fault(coredump)" ?
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Date: 27 May 91 20:15:25 GMT
References: <1991May23.232950.27551@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991May25.055311.8071@research.canon.oz.au> <1406@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
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In article <1406@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@oracle.com writes:
-In article <1991May25.055311.8071@research.canon.oz.au>, andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
-|> Sounds like a NULL pointer dereference. VAXen have data at location 0
-|> many modern systems don't (is AIX in this league?).
-
-	Nope. From /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport:
-
-   7.1.  Derefencing NULL Pointers
-
-      The word at memory location zero contains a  zero.
-      That  means  that  code which has been incorrectly
-      written to use a NULL pointer to represent a  null
-      string  will  work,  but  will  not be portable to
-      other UNIX operating systems, and may not work  on
-      future AIX systems.

I may vomit.

People who don't understand programming languages have no
business writing compilers.

				--Blair
				  "Some days it doesn't pay to let the
				   monkeys back on their typewriters..."