Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:25:19 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Cc:	Ole Winther <owsim AT ruc DOT dk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: How assign to NULL POINTER
In-Reply-To:	<1.5.4.16.19961114132000.29cf1b84@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961114172108.8432G-100000@is>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> >	char *ptr;   /* will be initialized to zero by the linker */
> >
> >	void myfunc(void)
> >	{
> >	  char c = *ptr;  /* this will crash your program under DJGPP */
> >	}
> 
> Eli, this code fragment compiled w/DJGPP (albeit replacing myfunc by main
> straight) runs w/o problems!

What is your DPMI host?  If it's not CWSDPMI or 386Max, then you lose: 
all of the rest don't disallow null pointer dereference, but rather let 
you get away with it.

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