Why NULL is 0

[David Lai]

In article <2448 at umd5.umd.edu>, louie at trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> 
> On, for example, our Unisys 1100 machine, a "regular"
> pointer is 8 bytes long (2 words, 72 bits).  A pointer to a function is 
> 64 bytes long (8 words, 288 bits).  
The math is wrong, 64 bytes ( 16 words, 576 bits).

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