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From: garry@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Microport Unix -- Large Model Problems
Message-ID: <1376@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 00:53:14 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1376
Posted: Tue Nov  4 00:53:14 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 19:47:23 EST
Reply-To: garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Engineering && Flying Moose Graphics
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In a recent article campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) wrote:
>I wonder why stdio.h doesn't just declare NULL as "(char *) 0", or,
>in the brave new world of ANSI X-whatever, "(void *) 0"?  This should
>do all the right things.

To get *all* the right things, we use:

	#ifdef	lint
	#   define	null	0
	#else
	#   define	null	(char *)0
	#endif

since lint doesn't understand that comparing an (int *) variable with a
(char *)0 is legitimate.

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)