> Hiding the error does not mean that the error did not occur or that it is not a problem.. It was about to occur and there is still a fundamental problem in yo

> Hiding the error does not mean that the error did not occur or that it is not a problem.. It was about to occur and there is still a fundamental problem in your logic leading up to the would-have-been segfault that was swept under the rug. It's an error only if you didn't want to dereference address 0. If you know it's safe and useful to do so on the system for which you're developing, why shouldn't you be able to do it? As the KSplice article shows, on Linux (under specific setup which is not the default), you can actually have something mapped there. I'd be hard pressed to invent a convincable scenario in which you would want to do it, but that doesn't mean there is none.