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Re:Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard... by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:52PM (#17202231)
if you reference a null pointer then this behavior is 'undefined' from the perspective of the C compiler - however it is very well defined by the operating system (if you are doing a user space application).

No nukes get involved here - only core dumps.

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Re:Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard... by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:44AM (#17218769)
If you are working on top of an operating system that launches nukes upon null pointer access, then you should consider to switch vendors.
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