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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: gcc and NULL function pointers.
Message-ID: <16418@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Jun 91 17:33:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.012914.25418@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <4641@inews.intel.com> <EE-B=O2@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <EE-B=O2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>	execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "echo", NULL);
>(which is a common idiom in UNIX source groups) ...

A common INCORRECT idiom!  This error is well known and has been discussed
to death, both on Usenet and in C programming textbooks and style guides.