D - Unsafe and doomed

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 04:31:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Null pointers are not a safety issue. Safety means no memory 
> corruption.

That's all well and good until you corrupt the interrupt vector 
table through a null pointer. We are talking about kernels after 
all.

(though i think this is different in 32 and 64 bit, but as you'll 
probably remember, the interrupt table in 16 bit DOS was located 
at address 0.)