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[cmrdporcupine]

Null pointer access caused by bad data is entirely conceivable... esp when you overwrite parts of kernel memory with nulls.

[pdimitar → cmrdporcupine]

I see. That doesn't make it better though, and OK let's forget about other languages.

I mean that the least you can do before pointer dereference is just check for several bad sentinel values, NULL being one of them.

Seems like a rather amateur mistake to me.

[lambdaone → pdimitar]

From that point of view, there are several million amateurs, some of them quite highly paid, out there writing terrible code.

[pdimitar → lambdaone]

Well, that statement is 100% true.

I've been an idiot as well in the past. Happily some of us actually learn though!