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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Must a NULL pointer be a 0 bit patte
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 12:37:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 12:37:46 1984
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> It seems to me that K&R guarantees that globals are initialized to zero,
> not to a nil pointer.  A lot of code will bite the dust given a machine
> with a non-zero nil pointer.
> 
> -- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)

BUT that still doesn't make it legal to 0-> something.

-Ron