Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1
From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704A-Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Possible extension to C??
Message-ID: <3306@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 23:23:51 GMT
Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704A-Liber,N.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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I have a proposal for a extension to C WHICH DOES NOT BREAK EXISTING CODE.

I feel that *0 should be equal to 0 (at least for the data types char, short,
int, long and 'pointer').

Much of the code that I have seen explicitly checks for a NULL pointer and then
performs the same action that would have been performed if the value it pointed
to were 0.

Comments??
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