Warp wrote:
>   I don't remember for sure, but I think that the standard might say
> something that if you access the data behind a null pointer the program
> will be terminated.

I would be surprised if running off the end of an array is undefined but 
accessing the null pointer is defined. It would prevent C++ from being 
standards-compliant in lots of places that don't have memory management 
hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of such systems actually 
outnumbers the number of systems *with* memory protection, once you 
start counting cell phones, microwave ovens, televisions, etc.

However, you may very well be right. I'm just guessing from 
what-should-be-reasonable. :-)

>   At least in practice this is so in all the most common systems.

Most common desktop systems, yes. I suspect this is more a POSIX thing 
than a C++ thing, really.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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