Null pointers

Norman Diamond ndiamond at watdaisy.UUCP
Tue Feb 12 13:57:37 AEST 1985


> Correct??
>       if (pointer)
>   and
>       pointer = 0;
> ARE guaranteed by the language spec to work.
>       function(0)
>       ....
>       int function(x)
>       int *x;
> is NOT.

I'm sorry to add the n'th repetition of this to the net, but if this will
get it over with and cut useless traffic by 50%, here goes.

YES!  THAT IS CORRECT!
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