On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 11:46:08PM -0600, Zeavon wrote:
> > >It certainly _is_. No-one ever thinks it's their code
> > that's broken, but
> > >it is 99.9999999998% of the time. You've screwed up your linked list
> > >somewhere and maybe a few other pointers elsewhere. Perhaps
> > you have a
> > >memory overrun.
> > Then why would if (blah) cause problems where if (blah !=
> > NULL) does not?
> > Surely if blah is not equal to NULL and if's behaviour is as
> > specified they
> > should be functionally identical. They are certainly not in
> > this particular
> > case.
> This has already been said, but perhaps you missed that email or just
> ignored what it had to say.
> if (blah)
> and
> if (blah != NULL)
> are NOT identical in their functionality!
Why?!
Could you supply at least one example where replacing if (blah) with
if (blah != NULL) give different results?
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