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From: jeffa@hpmwtla.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Re: Re: null pointers (was: negative addresses)
Message-ID: <3100003@hpmwtla.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 88 20:29:37 GMT
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Organization: HP MicroWave Technology - Santa Rosa,CA
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ANSI C is not C.  Prototypes do not exist in C.  Please show me where in
K&R that it states that "0" refers to the NULL pointer irrespective of the
underlying implementation.  Mr. Wells, if "0" does refer to the null
pointer, why do some systems have #define NULL (-1) in stdio?  My 
statement regarding casting is correct, since not all pointers need be 
of the same size.  Prototypes eliminate this annoyance, but I live with
a compiler void of prototypes :-(

Jeff "still wondering when C will be as clean as Algol-68" Aguilera