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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: NULL pointers as arguments
Message-ID: <5816@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 15:22:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 15:22:26 1987
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Keywords: NULL, pointers, C

In article <2975@pegasus.UUCP> hansen@pegasus.UUCP (60021254-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243) writes:
>Can anyone else find any flies in this idea?

Yes, it would add unnecessary overhead in implementations that have to
use different sizes for different pointer types.