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From: jym@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: An interesting behaviour in printf
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Date: 21 Mar 89 21:15:01 GMT
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DEC's VAX C compiler (for VMS) crashes if you pass it a NULL for a string:

	printf("%s\n",NULL);

Alas, it also crashes on this:

	printf("%.*s\n",0,NULL);

Caveat emptor.
 <_Jym_>