NotNull pointers

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 30 22:35:51 PDT 2011


On 8/30/2011 6:28 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 8/30/2011 5:08 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:19:00 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looking for corruption of the data.
>>>
>>> Why doesn't it check for null, and pass if no invariant is defined?
>>
>> Because the hardware does the null check for you, which is what a seg fault
>> is.
>
> The frequency with which this comes up and the lack of converts to that
> point of view ought to tell you something here. :)

I am simply baffled by it.


> Would you entertain a pull request with this fairly simple change?

It'll add a lot of bloat.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list