[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 22/07/2024 7:15 PM, aberba wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 July 2024 at 17:45:26 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> On 22/07/2024 5:42 AM, aberba wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 21 July 2024 at 17:39:23 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
>>> Cattermole wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> @live?
>>
>> Within a function body that provides spatial memory lifetime guarantees.
>>
>> That is the easy part, its inter-function which is the hard part and 
>> it does not attempt to solve that.
>>
>> I.e. storing a pointer into some objects and knowing that you have the 
>> only access to it, and if you extract it you have the only value of it.
> 
> Why isn't that the goal instead of just what @live is proposing?

We have tried to explain this to Walter, many times.

He hasn't understood it for whatever reason.