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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: regcmp()
Message-ID: <7292@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Feb 88 11:37:13 GMT
References: <9@vsi.UUCP> <15100006@bucc2>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15100006@bucc2> brian@bucc2.UUCP writes:
>> Not if you cast it to "char *", it isn't!  Passing "(char *)0" is quite
>> sufficient, unless the compiler is horribly broken.
>  Tsk, tsk, tsk. This statment is true if sizeof(int) == sizeof(pointer).

That statement was true regardless of the various object sizes.
(char *)0 has the right size.