gcc and NULL function pointers.

[Norman Diamond]

In article <1991Jun10.061202.25199 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <4641 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>Better, su to root and erase the `(void *)' part.  The most
>>general, and therefore most valuable, way to define NULL is
>>to simply map it to the digit 0.
>
>This does not handle the case where a prototype is not in scope.  E.g.
>	void
>	foo() {
>		bar(NULL);
>	}

Yes indeed, the best way to implement a processor for the language does not
handle the case where a programmer doesn't know how to use the language.
So what?
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