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andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:

>If your program breaks when location 0 is non NULL this means
>you have an unitialized pointer somewhere in your program, and
>are using memory you did not allocate (ie location 0)

  Uh, according to K&R, NULL is a valid assignment for a pointer, so
how is it unitialized?

  Where I got bit is in a pathname building routine that I wrote which
did a strlen() without explicitly checking for NULL first, it now does.

  But, my question is the NULL pointer itself, if NULL is a valid constant,
then the location NULL should contain nothing either, right?

  If I somehow missed something so embarrassingly basic, how come I can't
find it in K&R, which is supposed to be the last word in 'C'?

  -jack-