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Re: -fdelete-null-pointer-checks
- From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- To: "Bansidhar Deshpande" <dbansidhar at hotmail dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:51:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: -fdelete-null-pointer-checks
Hi Bansidhar,
I think it means that paranoia "insure that dereferenced pointers are not
NULL" testing is no longer assured by the compiler.
Either you'll get NULL dereferences (a programmer's logic error), or you
have an OS that will signal a SEGV, such as SunOS 5.8 (aka Solaris 8).
--Eljay