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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: NULL
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.095611.26562@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 27 Jun 91 09:56:11 GMT
References: <33822@usc.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <33822@usc.edu> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>*** BUG FIX ***
>
>In /usr/include/stdio.h, #define NULL 0
>In /usr/include/*.h (all others), #define NULL ((void *)0)
>
>stdio.h should be updated asap.
>
>If I'm wrong about this, or if this will break anything, please let me
>know.

The redefinition of NULL in stdio.h is to avoid about 1000 incorrect warnings
from the standard compiler. The standard compiler does not really understand
void *.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au