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Subject: Re: Must a NULL pointer be a 0 bit patte
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:34:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 00:34:36 1984
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Nf-From: ism780b!jim    Oct 16 19:57:00 1984

It seems to me that K&R guarantees that globals are initialized to zero,
not to a nil pointer.  A lot of code will bite the dust given a machine
with a non-zero nil pointer.

-- Jim Balter, INTERACTIVE Systems (ima!jim)