Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Must a NULL pointer be a 0 bit patte Message-ID: <72@ism780b.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:34:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780b.72 Posted: Thu Oct 18 00:34:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:39:27 EDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #R:wjh12:-52900:ism780b:25500045:000:220 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)