On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:13:19AM +0530, Neeraj wrote: > So, what would be your inference in the case of architectures where the null > pointer is not designated by 0(zero) (lot of them are mentioned there on the > C-faq page). What would then ((struct a *)0L)->field refer to and how will the > compiler know that (null-pointer)->field is required to evaluate the offset of > field in the structure "a" ? Part of porting the compiler to that architecture would involve discovering what the NULL pointer looks like to the CPU, and knowing to convert an integer 0 to the correct NULL pointer when used as a NULL pointer. -- http://immunix.org/
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