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WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe
> The problem is that in practice NULL pointers are often caused by other things, like thinking that zero-initialized memory contains a pointer
Which, to be clear, is not a valid assumption wrt portable C or C++.
spc476
on Nov 26, 2018
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While C may not mandate zero-initialized pointer is NULL, POSIX does.
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Which, to be clear, is not a valid assumption wrt portable C or C++.