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joe (j.) halpin wrote:
> 
> char *pc = new char[128];
> delete pc;
> pc = 0;
> 
> Am I misunderstanding something, or is it illegal to zero out pointers
> after they've been deallocated? I'm assuming that the intent was to
> disallow dereferencing of pointers that have been handed to
> delete. The wording seems to disallow the above as well.
> 

There is not problem using a pointer like that.  If you re-read the 
working paper closely you'll notice that the following phrase:

"An invalid pointer con-tains an unusable value:  it cannot even be used 
in an expression."

is refering to the value of the pointer, not the pointer itself.  In 
other words, replacing the value with zero is fine.
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