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

kdevel kdevel at vogtner.de
Sat Jul 27 14:18:03 UTC 2024


On Saturday, 27 July 2024 at 01:12:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> You're right that ref's can be null, too. C++ says they can't 
> be null, but it's trivial to make one in C++,

You can hardly produce one accidentally although it is trivial to
make one.

But such code is still not C++ as it wasn't in January 2023 [1].

[1] Re: Fixing C's Biggest Mistake
     
https://forum.dlang.org/post/lzqfkfsuhoivsbbeuxmy@forum.dlang.org



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