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barrkel
on March 31, 2010
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Dereferencing a NULL pointer always segfaults, rig...
Are you thinking of DOS? I can't imagine a Win32 compiler doing this.
spudlyo
on March 31, 2010
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Heh, in DOS a far NULL pointer was the start of the interrupt vector table -- divide by zero being first. I remember writing a program that wrote the address of one of my subroutines to a far NULL pointer and then dividing by zero.
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