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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Ultimate Wait-GetMsg strategy (?)
Message-ID: <562@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 02:01:58 GMT
References: <8902100658.AA16049@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <6777@polya.Stanford.EDU> <6402@dayton.UUCP> <331@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <331@wn2.sci.kun.nl> janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx) writes:
|(!expr) means the same as (expr != 0), which is THE test to test for a 
|NULL pointer. Even if NULL pointers are internally not represented by
|all-bits-zero, the compiler must recognize a comparison between a
|pointer and the constant 0, and emit approprate code in case that that
|compiler's internal representation of a NULL pointer is not the same
|as 0. See relatively recent articles on comp.lang.c.

You mean to tell me that comp.lang.c is STILL arguing about this?
I was on this group in 1985 and they were arguing about it.  I haven't
got comp.lang.c since September because my current feed doesn't get it.
Some things never change...

 
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