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"John R. Strohm" wrote:
> The last bug I found and fixed at my last employer was a null pointer
> access.  That company has an internal coding policy that pointers will
> ALWAYS be tested for null before being dereferenced.  

I would submit that this should be done by hardware, not software (i.e.
location 0, assuming null is 0) should be fetch-protected from
everywhere but a few O/S routines.  Anything else is a colossal waste of
computing resources.