Must a NULL pointer be a 0 bit patte

Ron Natalie <ron> ron at brl-tgr.ARPA
Tue Oct 23 02:37:46 AEST 1984


> It seems to me that K&R guarantees that globals are initialized to zero,
> not to a nil pointer.  A lot of code will bite the dust given a machine
> with a non-zero nil pointer.
> 
> -- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)

BUT that still doesn't make it legal to 0-> something.

-Ron



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