Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat") Message-ID: <6027@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 18:41:19 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.6027 Posted: Sat Oct 5 18:41:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 18:41:19 EDT References: <2826@sun.uucp>, <2620@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > The zero deference bug still exists in my Vr2 code. Does anyone think that > for Vr3 they'll turn on the loader option to disallow zero deferences? Probably not until they run into the same situation that forced Berkeley to do something about it: a machine which *cannot* support a readable location 0. (Let there be no illusions that Berkeley fixed *NULL problems out of nobility or purity of heart; they fixed them because they had no choice if they wanted their code to run on the first Suns.) -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry