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Plenty of architectures do not trap at null-pointer dereferencing (they don't have traps). Some (like AVR) are not arcane, they are one of the best excuses for

Plenty of architectures do not trap at null-pointer dereferencing (they don't have traps). Some (like AVR) are not arcane, they are one of the best excuses for still writing C nowadays.

zokier 12y ago
Just because a improvement is not applicable to all situations does not mean that is should not be pursued.
wglb 12y ago
Arcane in the context of the blog post might mean non-86* and non-ARM. AVR developed by Atmel in 1996, you might agree, is less-well known than the above.