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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 13:11:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 printf.9
Message-ID:  <200105081711.NAA63309@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010507083529.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200105071248.f47Cmdn09537@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.010507083529.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Mon, 07 May 2001 08:35:29 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said:

> Err, NULL (for pointers) is capitalized,

That would be a bug.  The proper phrase is ``a null pointer''.  NULL
(or rather, `.Dv NULL') is correct if and only if the reference is
specifically to the C language macro so named (which is to say, almost
never).

-GAWollman


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