From 8249723864534765955 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,176c9dc06a6729eb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-26 07:51:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: why doesn't delete NULL the pointer? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:50:18 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C9FCF9D.D2E82F49@acm.org> References: <3C9DD892.94860335@acm.org> <3C9E5A54.12B15FB3@acm.org> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1017157831 mail2news:4754 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) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Mar 2002 01:32:13 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 18 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:10195 Pedro Sam wrote: > > I believe that by setting the pointer to NULL, further unintended access > to that pointer will crash the program immediately (which is good). Believing it doesn't make it so. Dereferencing a null pointer produces undefined behavior. Nothing more. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ 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 ]