Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:14:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Gorden <gorden AT ms9 DOT url DOT com DOT tw>
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Subject: Re: atoi() and ANSI C ????
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Gorden wrote:

> I try Borland C 3.1 a function
> atoi(NULL);
> the function return 0
> 
> But In The Djgpp
> atoi(NULL);
> Is dump error massage on screen

Try that on Windows, and you probably will see no crash.  It's a question 
of whether the OS catches NULL pointers or not.

> So In Djgpp Can't use atoi(NULL)
> 
> Right?

No, you can't.  You also can't pass NULL pointers to many other library 
functions, like strchr, strcpy, etc.  Code which does that is buggy.