From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Questions about nil-pointer dereferences (the "plague")
Article-I.D.: watcgl.300
Posted: Sat Apr  2 20:09:04 1983
Received: Sun Apr  3 00:12:14 1983
References: sri-arpa.746

It may be true that there is a "null string" (zero byte) at location zero
on the VAX, but that certainly isn't true of the PDP11 nor would I expect
it to be on most other machines.  Code which has run on a variety of
hardware would tend to get such bugs weeded out of it.  Can you give some
examples of code which does need zero at location zero to work properly.

Dave Martindale