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Standard versus Reality

Posted on 06/09/2016 by Stewart Smith
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While dereferencing a NULL pointer may be undefined, there’s a legitimate reason to do so: you want to store something at address 0. Why? Well, not all of us are fancy and have an MMU turned on.

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