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Daniel Pfeffer14-Jun-22 18:10
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That's only relevant to protected-memory O/Ses (most of them, these days, I'll grant). Running on good old DOS, you could easily read (and sometimes write) to NULL, while your program went off into hyperspace.

If every NULL reference cost the perpetrator money out of pocket (e.g. if the computer literally crashed and burned), I'm sure that software quality would have been much higher.
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