Referencing through a null pointer

[ark at alice.UUCP]

In article <4729 at cup.portal.com>, Paul_L_Schauble at cup.portal.com.UUCP writes:
> Could someone please tell me which machine it was that started the
> unfortunate convention that referencing through the null pointer returns a
> zero with no error?

There is no such convention.  Some machines do behave that way,
but I've never heard anyone claim that a program relying on that
behavior is anything but wrong.