MSC Danger (was Re: Turbo C vs Quick C)

[Russ Nelson]

In article <112 at westmark.UUCP> dave at westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) writes:
>MS-C release 3.0 and 4.0 also check for NULL pointer references at
>runtime.  They do this by [checking..] the first sixteen bytes of the data
>segment. If they don't compare, the runtime package displays the
>message "NULL POINTER REFERENCE" as your program exits.

Turbo C does this also.  Perhaps what the original poster meant was that
MS-C 5.0 checks *every* pointer use for the null pointer.
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-russ
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