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From: greyham@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
Message-ID: <62@ausonics.OZ>
Date: 26 Oct 88 05:35:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: ausonics.62
References: <1019@esunix.UUCP>
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article <1019@esunix.UUCP>, bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) says:
> 
[stuff about what I said earlier]
> The idea was to define all of these to be runtime exceptions. Not to
> make them meaningful. *NULL is about as meaningful as x/0, and both
> should, in my opinion, cause an exception.

Well that's just not possible in many cases. Looks like it'l have to be
DEFINED as being UNDEFINED.
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