Is there a NULL pointer to functions?

Steve Summit scs at adam.mit.edu
Thu May 30 01:45:16 AEST 1991


In article <632 at gca.UUCP> hinton at gca.UUCP (Edward Hinton) writes:
>Now I'm going back a ways, but C doesn't necessarily define
>NULL as 0, although it's been quite a while since I've seen
>a system where it isn't.  However, I recall a system where 0 WAS a
>valid address (small model on an 8086 based virtual memory system)
>and NULL was defined to be -1.

Regular readers of comp.lang.c recognize the fallacies in this
statement, and I've just sent Ed a copy of the comp.lang.c
frequently-asked questions list, so there should be no need to
comment further on this aspect of the problem.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs at adam.mit.edu



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