Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site lll-crg.ARpA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.ARpA (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: if(p) Message-ID: <894@lll-crg.ARpA> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 21:45:44 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.894 Posted: Fri Oct 4 21:45:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 14:58:11 EDT References: <1671@brl-tgr.ARPA> <516@talcott.UUCP> <2245@ukma.UUCP> <1899@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Group Lines: 3 Yep, if(p) tests to see if p is a valid pointer, valid in the sense that it point somewhere. Of course it may point to a location that will dump core. If it very unfortunate that on a VAX a NULL pointer does not dump core.