Re: [certi-dev] IEEE1516 RIambassador Checking if (&Object == NULL)

[Eric Noulard]

2010/11/12 Ijperen, Jeroen van <address@hidden>:
> Hello Eric,
>
> The following piece of code compiles without any warnings in VS 2008 (with 
> /W4).
> Yes, it is very evil to do so, however the compiler doesn't even make mention 
> of the direct dereference of the NULL pointer.
>
> I do hope that GCC does a better job of catching this error.

Nope it doesn't even with "-Wall -Wextra"

> I agree that it is the responsibility of the developer to make sure he 
> doesn't pass a NULL pointer, but in our application we did not have a need 
> for tags, so we always used NULL for them.

OK I can see the use case.

> Anyway, I agree that checks like should not be required, as it's the 
> developer doing something nasty (even if the compiler doesn't warn him about 
> how nasty it really is)

Thank you for the example code.
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Erk
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