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If what you say is true -- OK. Then would you say that the tweet posted earlier that showed the NULL pointer access was incorrect or misleading?

• cmrdporcupine 2y ago
  Null pointer access caused by bad data is entirely conceivable... esp when you overwrite parts of kernel memory with nulls.
  • pdimitar 2y ago
    I see. That doesn't make it better though, and OK let's forget about other languages. I mean that the least you can do before pointer dereference is just check for several bad sentinel values, NULL being one of them. Seems like a rather amateur mistake to me.
    • lambdaone 2y ago
      From that point of view, there are several million amateurs, some of them quite highly paid, out there writing terrible code.
      • pdimitar 2y ago
        Well, that statement is 100% true. I've been an idiot as well in the past. Happily some of us actually learn though!