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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: argv[] terminated by a NULL pointer?
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Date: 24 Jun 91 06:31:57 GMT
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In article <14603@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>Under Version 6 Unix, argv[argc] is (char *)-1.  This violates the
>following wording from X3.159-1989 (`ANSI C'):
>    argv[argc] shall be a null pointer.  (2.1.1.2, p. 7)
>Thus, the answer to your question is both `no' and `yes'.

Unless, of course, `(char *)-1' compares equal to a null pointer...

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