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Article #1092Re: references to dereferenced null pointers
From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 02:32
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 02:32
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Henry's observation on MSDOS and Doug's comments about the shortcomings of the Intel architecture are both very well taken. On at least one such system that I am forced to deal with regularly, the NULL pointer is internally represented as address F000:0000 hex. This invariably trips up newcomers to the compiler in question, which compiler is originally from Washington State (yes, them :-(.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!randall From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: references to dereferenced null pointers Message-ID: <3213@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> Date: 15 Mar 90 02:32:09 GMT References: <51083@microsoft.UUCP> <25EB8EE8.8462@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1990Mar12.175613.12082@utzoo.uucp> <1623@argus.UUCP> <12347@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 7