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From: Paul_L_Schauble@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Referencing through a null pointer
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Date: 23 Apr 88 10:06:35 GMT
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Could someone please tell me which machine it was that started the
unfortunate convention that referencing through the null pointer returns a
zero with no error? I was under the impression it was BSD Unix, but I'm not
sure.

    Thanks,
       Paul