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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Passing NULLs to printf
Message-ID: <1407@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 11:16:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: cullvax.1407
Posted: Wed Jul 29 11:16:48 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 04:47:11 EDT
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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But, suppose we write:

	printf("%.0s", (char *)NULL)

This should print zero characters out of the string, and so won't
actually reference any character through the null pointer.  Presumably
this is valid ANSI C!

Dale
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