From: silkwodj AT my-dejanews DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Declaring a "null" pointer (was Providing a "cast") Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:31:09 GMT Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Lines: 10 Message-ID: <7828ft$2nu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.147.228.2 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 19 15:31:09 1999 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x7.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.147.228.2 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Thanks to Hans-Bernhard Broeker for clarifying the cast mechanism for me. Now I realize what I want to do is declare a pointer named "screen" and set its address to zero (so I can recognize this bogus value in a test). I believe this is referred to as a "null" pointer, even though there really is a value of zero. This has got to be some real basic thing I've missed along the way. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own