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Article #74755Re: using 0 instead of NULL
From: Byron Rakitzis
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 21:11
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 21:11
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In article <1991Mar6.201722.17499@Solbourne.COM> imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes: >In article <JYM.91Mar6112521@remarque.berkeley.edu> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes: >> __ In a system where NULL isn't zero, > >NULL is always 0. Tests of pointers against 0 are always required to >succeed if those pointers are NULL. The actual bits that are used may >or may not be 0, but NULL is always 0 (perhaps with a cast on it). > AAAARGH! This mindless discussion goes on over and over again in comp.lang.c. Could you please take your NULL gripes there, or at the very least RTFM! Byron. (This is bordering on the Kafkaesque... how many times do we have to hear about the bit representation of NULL on the Foo architecture, etc. etc. ad nauseam??)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,343b7ce3977dbb95 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-07 04:32:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!archone!byron From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: using 0 instead of NULL Message-ID: <13108@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 91 21:11:46 GMT References: <27D16AC5.3952@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <JYM.91Mar6112521@remarque.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar6.201722.17499@Solbourne.COM> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: College of Architecture, Texas A&M University. Lines: 18