From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
Date: 27 Jan 2006 16:06:10 -0600
Date: 2006-01-27T16:06:10-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3yNinNxmEyJb@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17514424.vPDbTzKvie@linux1.krischik.com
In article <17514424.vPDbTzKvie@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
>> In article <1138363035.664717.262330@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>> "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>
>>> You can manualy free memory - provided all pointers pointing to the
>>> freed memory are set to null at the same time. And access to a null
>>> pointer is handled in orderly manner.
>>
>> If a program is correct, having the pointers become null is not an issue.
>> Referencing through a null pointer or a stale pointer is equally wrong.
>
> Not of access of a null pointer raises an exceptions. Exceptions are
> considered well defined. See the talk page.
I gather you are trying to say some people plan to have their programs
access via a null pointer and then handle an exception. That seems
incredibly sloppy. It is also likely to be quite inefficient on some
Ada implementations.
I have no idea what you mean by "the talk page".
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-26 7:28 Type safety on wikipedia Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 11:58 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-26 17:10 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 20:24 ` Simon Wright
2006-01-26 20:43 ` Simon Wright
2006-01-27 6:58 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 23:43 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2006-01-27 11:14 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-27 11:57 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-27 15:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-27 19:04 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-27 22:06 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-01-28 7:04 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-29 21:48 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-27 12:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-26 13:49 ` Rod Chapman
2006-01-26 17:05 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 18:14 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 13:53 ` jimmaureenrogers
2006-01-26 15:18 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-26 16:49 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 18:19 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-26 20:38 ` Simon Wright
2006-01-27 11:13 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-27 19:38 ` Simon Wright
2006-01-27 23:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-28 6:53 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-27 18:58 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-27 19:50 ` Simon Wright
2006-01-28 6:52 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-26 19:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-26 19:07 ` Florian Weimer
2006-01-27 0:38 ` jimmaureenrogers
2006-01-27 18:54 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-28 1:48 ` Jan Andres
2006-01-28 6:44 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-31 2:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-02-06 5:02 ` Dave Thompson
2006-02-06 8:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-27 11:34 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-01-27 12:18 ` Martin Krischik
2006-01-27 15:27 ` Florian Weimer
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