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From: dan@ttds.UUCP (Dan Sahlin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Please use NULL instead of 0 whenever you have a pointer!
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Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 17:10:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 17:10:31 1984
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Someone claimed that NULL was exactly the same as 0.
This is however not true of you have a compiler with 16 bit integers,
and 32 bit addresses.
I have spent a lot of time "debugging" programs that implicitly assume
that pointers and integers have the same length.

Dan Sahlin    (..mcvax!enea!ttds!dan)