(char *)(-1)

[Graham Bardsley]

Here's some other sloppyness in UNIX pointer types (by no means definative):

	caddr_t mmap() returns -1 on error
	char *shmat() returns -1 on error.

	void (*signal())()  can return either -1 (error), 0 (SIG_DFL), or
	1 (SIG_IGN) although SIG_DFL and SIG_IGN are macros :-o

	char *mktemp() returns -1 on error
	

 Just what are you meant to to test error conditions with these beasts !
The only thing really is to cast the result to int and compare
but thats still not portable and some lints will not shut up about such things
(even if you tell them to).



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