NotNull pointers

[Brad Roberts]

On 8/30/2011 10:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Well, for those that would like it.. yebblies created a pull request with the appropriate changes:

  https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/358

(I haven't tried it myself.)

Later,
Brad