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Re:The Dangers of Super Smart Compilers by Kristine1975 on Sunday December 20, 2015 @09:34AM (#10767113)
Some systems allow you to dereference NULL

For example inside the Linux kernel. GCC has the special switch "-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks" that turns off the assumption that a dereferenced pointer is never null: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~akcheung/papers/apsys12.htm...

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