BL> Since that is an indeterminate location in the above
 BL> example, you can very well be trying to store data in a read
 BL> only location or a location allocated to another session. 
 BL> Both of these are a no no under a protected mode operating
 BL> system.

MB>Under OS/2, a process can never see a pointer to a location allocated to
MB>another session.  All processes see their own process virtual address space
MB>as the first 512 MB of the 4 GB arena, and these addresses are local to each
MB>process.  That is, any particular virtual address such as %12345678 would map
MB>to different memory in each separate processes (unless explicitly allocated
MB>as shared).

And still won't work. >G<  If he didn't know that you have to initialize
a pointer in C++ before using it, I didn't want to get too technical on
him.
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