tgetent core dump on sco xenix
Chip Rosenthal
chip at vector.UUCP
Tue Jul 5 06:49:08 AEST 1988
{{{ The original article was in comp.sources.d too. }}}
In article <3222 at bigtex.uucp> you write:
}IN article <701 at nod2sco>, rosso at sco.COM (Ross Oliver) wrote:
}> Here are a few tips to avoid problems like this in large-model
}> 286 programs:
}> - Declare your functions' return values.
}> - Don't use "0" to mean NULL ( i.e. (char *)0 ).
}
}This last statement is incorrect, or rather, evidence of a broken
}compiler.
XENIX does the right thing. You can do (char *) assignments and
comparisons with zero. I still agree with the statement as a matter
of style, but that's a diatribe better left for comp.lang.c :-(.
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