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From: fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk (Paul Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: regcmp()
Message-ID: <292@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk>
Date: 3 Mar 88 17:49:35 GMT
References: <9@vsi.UUCP> <15100006@bucc2>
Reply-To: fox@alice.UUCP (Paul Fox)
Organization: Reuters Ltd PLC, Marlow, Bucks, England
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In article <15100006@bucc2> brian@bucc2.UUCP writes:
>
>> > The problem is with what you are passing.  You are passing (char *)0 instead
>> > of (char *)NULL.  As I recall, Microport #defines NULL to be 0L instead of
>> > just 0.  This is an important difference.
>> 
>> 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).

Well, (char *) 0 and (char *) 0L are the SAME. Looks like the compiler
is broken. 
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