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> From: "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 9 Jan 2002 18:02:00 GMT
> 
> Is this NULL pointer bug in vim 6 DOS-only, or does it affect vim in
> all OSes?

That depends on whether the code which dereferences a NULL pointer is
DOS-specific or not.  If it is run on other OSes, it should cause
crashes there as well.

> vim 6 I have, 32-bit version, seems quite stable as long as I only handle one
> file at a time.

Note that you will not see this problem in the DJGPP port unless you
run on plain DOS with CWSDPMI as your DPMI server.  Other servers,
including Windows, don't support the DPMI extension used by DJGPP to
detect NULL pointer dereferences.