Why NULL is 0

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sat Mar 12 07:56:46 AEST 1988


In article <124 at polygen.UUCP> pablo at polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern) writes:
>Perhaps ANSI should add the restriction that all pointer types must be
>the same size in an effort to "codify common existing practice."

But it isn't existing practice.

If you mean, non-portable, buggy code is existing practice, well yes,
but so what?  That certainly shouldn't serve as the basis for a standard.



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