> It is an intentional omission (I have had this argument before on
> comp.lang.c, except I was arguing your side at the time, and was set
> straight).

So, to be clear, there was at one time debate over whether null -> integer
yields 0 should be in the standard, and in the end that was intentionally
omitted? So the error is in the editing--the stray "except as previously
specified" was accidentally left in referring to nothing?

> Of course, this is, for the most part, all academic, as any platforms
> on which Cocoa (or OpenStep APIs) exist all convert a null pointer to
> zero and vice-versa.

Yes. And the general evolution of things has been away from segmented/exotic
addressing schemes to flat memory addressing. For good reasons, too ;-)

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