From 8502447427016272407 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,176c9dc06a6729eb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-25 13:03:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jmonk@panix.com (Joseph Monk) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: why doesn't delete NULL the pointer? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:02:39 GMT Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <166f05e8.0203240153.127c0f04@posting.google.com> References: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1017090165 mail2news:24986 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2002 09:53:12 GMT Lines: 30 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:10177 Stroustrup has a whole discussion about exactly this subject at "http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#delete-zero". Fairly exhaustive, Joe. p2sam@uwaterloo.ca (Pedro Sam) wrote in message news:... > Hi all, > > I'm curious about the delete operator and NULL pointers. Why doesn't > the standard require that the delete operator to set the pointer's value > to NULL? > > If the pointer is NULL, then if someone comes along and try to access > that pointer, it would crash with a segfault, instead of reading garbage > ( or even worse, write over some memory ). > > Crash early is a Good Thing(TM) right? > > I would appreciate any comments. > > p2sam --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]