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Subject: Re: private types
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in
news:1259548.CMTukHGvVZ@linux1.krischik.com: 

> Of course programming C or C++ on such an OS could be quite
> challenging (Write to (void*)0 and you mess up your Proccess
> Information Descriptor). 

The C/C++ standard does not require NULL pointers to be represented by all 
zero bits either. The null pointer constant, (void*)0, might be translated 
into 0xFFFFFFFF or some other value.

Peter