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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by kortilla on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:02AM (#37928032)
No, it’s not a guarantee, it’s just a noisy filter with a very high false negative rate and a high enough false positive rate (as visible in malpractice insurance).
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by pjmlp on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:33PM (#37933624)
I certainly is, those numbers would be much higher without that filter.
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Re:*(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend with... by kortilla on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:25AM (#37943347)
I don’t think you know what “guarantee” means. If it was a guarantee, malpractice insurance wouldn’t exist.
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