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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0
Message-ID: <7437@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Mar 88 21:56:46 GMT
References: <10576@mimsy.UUCP> <124@polygen.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <124@polygen.UUCP> pablo@polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern) writes:
>Perhaps ANSI should add the restriction that all pointer types must be
>the same size in an effort to "codify common existing practice."

But it isn't existing practice.

If you mean, non-portable, buggy code is existing practice, well yes,
but so what?  That certainly shouldn't serve as the basis for a standard.