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Re:Sshole by jstanley on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:29AM (#50389643)
> You have to handle NULL in C, or your program crashes

But it crashes at runtime, so such a bug can exist for years with nobody noticing.

The existence of such bugs is what motivated the musl developers to return "*" instead of NULL.

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