No it's not, even with MSVC on Windows dereferencing a null pointer is not guaranteed to do anything: Here's a classic article about the very weird and unintui

No it's not, even with MSVC on Windows dereferencing a null pointer is not guaranteed to do anything: Here's a classic article about the very weird and unintuitive consequences of null pointer dereferencing, such as "time travel": https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...