clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Code dereferencing a possibly-NULL pointer *is* bogus - it's nothing you can
> simply blame on the compiler. And mission-critical code should not *never* be
> bogus.

  I didn't get the impression that they were dereferencing a null pointer
deliberately in order to get an exception, or that it was a mistake. (The
only "mistake" was not realizing what kind of optimization gcc would do.)

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                                                          - Warp

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