use of NULL
Wietse Z. Venema
wietse at wzv.UUCP
Fri Feb 24 06:57:58 AEST 1989
In article <973 at optilink.UUCP> cramer at optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>
>Never pass bare 0 as a pointer argument -- but use the stdio.h
>definition of NULL, and the segmented architecture will NOT screw
>you.
>
Wrong. Think of the middle memory model of microsoft c where
sizeof(data pointer) != sizeof(function pointer). One should
NEVER rely on a universal representation of null pointers.
As written in a recent article, NULL is a mistake.
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