Help on gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  5, 2002, "James Dressler" <jamesmdr@hotmail.com> wrote:

> does not work, never prints "captured"

Dereferencing a NULL pointer invokes undefined behavior, so the crash
you get is in perfect accordance with the Standard, and it is indeed
the expected behavior.  In fact, be happy that the program didn't
format your hard disk, destroy the universe nor go out with your
sister :-)  It might throw an exception, but that's not what most would
expect from C++ programs in this situation.  C++ != Java :-)

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