Deleting linked lists.

[Scott Amspoker]

In article <548 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>	while ( ptr != NULL ) {
>
>Personally, I think that the [not shown] `while' is not very nice; you should
>explicitly test for NULL -- after all, a pointer is not an integer,
>right?

...and neither is a '0' when compare to a pointer which is what is implied
by 'while (ptr)'.  The C compiler will assume a compare to a null pointer
in such a case.

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