>> <LANGUAGE-LAWYER>Nil pointer != address zero.</LANGUAGE-LAWYER>

> Sure it doesn't need to be the same.  But it's good for catching
> problems to have pointers from a struct set to NULL when you bzero
> the struct.

It would be better to have them set to a non-nil-pointer but still
invalid value.  That way you can *catch* bugs like using bzero on
pointers.  (Yes, it's a bug; what you get when you bzero a pointer is
undefined, and depending on it to be anything at all is therefore a
bug, arguably except in specced-as-machine-dependent code.)

Just as nil-pointer != address-zero, nil-pointer also != all-bits-0.

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