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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: use of NULL
Keywords: NULL zero 0 C Microsoft
Message-ID: <16069@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 11:04:03 GMT
References: <1167@unisec.usi.com> <5312@turnkey.TCC.COM> <9582@smoke.BRL.MIL> <975@optilink.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <16020@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote:
>>...  Using 0 wherever NULL is strictly legal will always work.  Never
>>mind the fact that, by trickery, Microsoft C defines NULL in a way that
>>works for INCORRECT calls in large model (but *not* for medium nor
>>compact models), as a concession to bad programmers' wrong programs.

In article <975@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>This is not correct.  Microsoft C defines NULL in a way that works
>for CORRECT calls in large model, and in medium and compact models.

Let me put it in as few words as possible:

If you do it my way, it always works.

If you do it your way, it sometimes works.

Now, which do you prefer?
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