Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!hoefling From: hoefling@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re: Re: null pointers (was: neg Message-ID: <43700042@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Jun 88 17:11:00 GMT References: <3100003@hpmwtla.HP.COM> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:hpmwtla.HP.COM:3100003:uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:43700042:000:269 Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!hoefling Jun 20 12:11:00 1988 "The C Programming Language", Kernighan and Ritchie, 1978, page 192: Appendix A, section 7.14 "Assignment operators": "However, it is guaranteed that assignment of the constant 0 to a pointer will produce a null pointer distinguishable from a pointer to any object."