Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:54:28 +0000 () From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Cc: george@eps.ufsc.br, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PThread Message-ID: <199710201154.LAA06957@mother.sneaker.net.au> In-Reply-To: <199710200013.WAA14748@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Oct 19, 97 10:13:27 pm
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| 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.
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