dereferencing null

[Martin Nowak]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:22:09 +0100, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Sandeep Datta:
>
>> I am just going to leave this here...
>>
>> *Fast Bounds Checking Using Debug Register*
>>
>> http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/tr/TR225.pdf
>
> Is this idea usable in DMD to speed up D code compiled in non-release  
> mode?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Array accesses are already bounds checked in a much more reliable way than
what the paper proposes. Furthermore the solution in the paper needs  
kernel support.