Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1985 22:41

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> The zero deference bug still exists in my Vr2 code. Does anyone think that
> for Vr3 they'll turn on the loader option to disallow zero deferences?

Probably not until they run into the same situation that forced Berkeley
to do something about it:  a machine which *cannot* support a readable
location 0.  (Let there be no illusions that Berkeley fixed *NULL problems
out of nobility or purity of heart; they fixed them because they had no
choice if they wanted their code to run on the first Suns.)
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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