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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Possible extension to C??
Message-ID: <7602@alice.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 23:49:50 GMT
References: <3306@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <3306@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP writes:
> I feel that *0 should be equal to 0 (at least for the data types char, short,
> int, long and 'pointer').

This is very difficult to implement efficiently on some machines.
Consider, for instance, a machine whose operating system forces
location 0 to contain a non-zero value.