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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: NULL is not '\0'
Message-ID: <13049@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 30 Jan 89 14:27:51 GMT
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In article <9515@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

| What do you mean, "there are so many"?  Tandy Xenix implementations
| are not C "standards" by any stretch of the imagination.

  I think in this case he was referring to K&R 1st ed and dpAns. I
pointed out to someone who posted a flame in response to a bug fix that
it is unwise to assume the type of NULL, and desirable to cast it except
when used for assignment to or comparison with a pointer.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me