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From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: please help with: warning: initialization makes integer from
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On Oct 08, "Harti Brandt" wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> Memset is actually not portable if the structure contains pointers because 
> it would initialize the pointers to 0 values not to 0 pointers. A 0 
> pointer not necessarily has a 0 value. A pointer can be portably be 
> initialize to the 0-pointer only by assigning NULL (or 0) (or by assigning 
> another pointer that is alreay initialized).

Sick!

Are there actually systems out there that don't have "all-zero" NULL pointers?

You have officially shattered my previously held beliefs about the
sacredness of memset :(

Mike