static weirdness

[Alex]

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 10:17:34 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 02:01:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> (so there's no need to dereference the pointer to call it)
>
> It used to check this pointer with an assert. When did it 
> change?

Fortunately, I have some compilers here and just tested it. 
2.076.1 results in a segmentation fault, whereas 2.077.0 does not.