An Ubiquitous C bug

[house ron]

risto at tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes:

>Hi!

>While I don't see it too dramatic a problem (to have NULL pointers to valid
>function objects in C), 

It is a _VERY_ dramatic problem if you write a utility function which
takes pointers to other functions as arguments, and needs to test
which ones point to genuine functions so that it knows which ones
it has to call.

EVERY DEVIATION FROM A STANDARD IS DRAMATIC SOMEWHERE!

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Regards,

Ron House.   (s64421 at zeus.usq.edu.au)
(By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)