From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: delete NULL?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:19:16 -0800
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R.v.Paasen wrote:

> You have to be sure that ptr is initialised with NULL.

Of course.  Creating a variable will never guarantee that it is initialized
to any reasonable value, much less the null pointer, in the case of a
pointer variable.

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