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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: use of NULL
Keywords: NULL zero 0 C Microsoft
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Date: 24 Feb 89 20:54:14 GMT
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> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
> Microsoft C defines NULL in a way that works
> for CORRECT calls in large model, and in medium and compact models.

This is surely an unusual meaning of "correct".  The C language
makes it clear that passing an uncast arithmetic constant as an
actual parameter to a formal parameter of type pointer when no
prototype is in scope is never correct.

--
Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the slimy urchin?
Who make the shark?  He did!
          --- Monty Python
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw