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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Writing readable code
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Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 23:16:54 EDT
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> It's not mnemonic, on some machines its just wrong.  NULL is ***NOT***
> defined as zero on all machines.

Come on.  We've been through this a hundred times.  Any C compiler
that has NULL set to anything other than plain 0 is wrong.  It's
in the language spec.  Pointers must standup to comparison to the
constant 0.  If NULL is ever set to anything other than 0, it will
break far more things.

-Ron