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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:36:32 -0800
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: NULL as ((void*)0) (was Re: strlen() question) 
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At 10:17 AM 2/15/97 +1100, you wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:36:53 +0100  Eivind Eklund wrote:
>
>> I hereby propose changing the default declaration of NULL under FreeBSD
from
>> #define NULL 0
>>  to
>> #define NULL ((void*)0)
>
>This is more of a kludge than a good idea, and I offer the following
>sage advice that I filed away many years ago.
[wisdom snip'd]

Giles;

Excellent little bit of advice-like prose. I will indeed file
this one. Thanks.

-Tim