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Re: bug in CMPPTRT

  • Subject: Re: bug in CMPPTRT
  • From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:02:00 -0500
 
> Seems CMPPTRT returns a "not equal" condition when it compares a null
value
> to an unresolved system pointer containing an invalid initial value.  Why?
> Shouldn't this situation return an "equal" condition?

Why would you expect NULL and an unresolved system pointer containing an
invalid initial value to be equal ?

Having been bitten may times by uninitailized variables, teaches you
(painfully) not to assume that anything containing an invalid initial value
will equal NULL...

--phil

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