Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sun Oct 6 08:41:19 AEST 1985
> The zero deference bug still exists in my Vr2 code. Does anyone think that
> for Vr3 they'll turn on the loader option to disallow zero deferences?
Probably not until they run into the same situation that forced Berkeley
to do something about it: a machine which *cannot* support a readable
location 0. (Let there be no illusions that Berkeley fixed *NULL problems
out of nobility or purity of heart; they fixed them because they had no
choice if they wanted their code to run on the first Suns.)
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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