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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Referencing through a null pointer
Message-ID: <7828@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 19:47:00 GMT
References: <4729@cup.portal.com>
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In article <4729@cup.portal.com>, Paul_L_Schauble@cup.portal.com.UUCP writes:
> 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?

There is no such convention.  Some machines do behave that way,
but I've never heard anyone claim that a program relying on that
behavior is anything but wrong.