Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU From: MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Undelivered mail Message-ID: <12311@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 12 Mar 88 20:29:46 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 25 Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0 [Non-Deliverable: User does not exist or has never logged on] Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Received: From UWAVM(MAILER) by ALASKA with Jnet id 8001 for SXJVK@ALASKA; Sat, 12 Mar 88 10:50 AST Received: by UWAVM (Mailer X1.25) id 5338; Sat, 12 Mar 88 11:49:55 PST Date: Fri, 11 Mar 88 21:56:46 GMT Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Sender: Info-C List From: Doug Gwyn Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0 Comments: To: info-c@brl-smoke.arpa To: Vic Kapella 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.