gcc and NULL function pointers.

[Peter da Silva]

In article <4641 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> Old chesnuts crack hard...

> The most general, and therefore most valuable, way to define NULL is
> to simply map it to the digit 0.

And you're working at Intel... On an 80x86 (x<3), there exist models where
int = 16 bits, pointer = 32 bits. On such a machine,

	execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "echo", NULL);

(which is a common idiom in UNIX source groups) will display amazing
things, assuming you don't get a core dump...
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