From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: nil pointer dereference response summary and question Article-I.D.: csu-cs.1986 Posted: Tue Jan 18 15:05:46 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 03:43:37 1983 I've gotten numerous letters since my first question, and all the writers agreed that coding to depend on nil pointers is a NO-NO. Most thought that trapping it was a good idea, but agreed that there is a lot of bad code in existence (yeah!). But no-one has yet answered my question: if I do something like: int *a = 0, *b = 0; *a = 1; Now what is the value of *b? Zero, or one? Please mail me the answer if you know. Thanks!