Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:09:23 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PThread Message-ID: <199710200239.MAA00729@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:54:28 GMT." <199710201154.LAA06957@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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> +-----[ Joao Carlos Mendes Luis ]------------------------------ > | > | PS: I really wonder how Solaris can run wrong code and do not > | complain at all... :) > > I'll drift off topic here and just say, that HPUX lets you dereference > NULL pointers as many times as you want, without skipping a beat. They > always return NULL though, not random data, so I suppose it's an > alternative form of robustness. This is called "mapping page zero", and it is a concession to all those stupid programmers out there that don't have the brains Zoroaster gave a rock. mike (Apologies to any Zoroastrians out there that feel that rocks weren't so hard done by as I am implying.)
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