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Hyman,

> You make two errors here. The first is to assume without
> any actual knowledge that it is possible for the argument
> to be a null pointer; it is likely that the contract for
> this procedure requires that it not be.

I've read that a countless time. The problem is that it is not possible
to enforce a contract in C. I've seen many bugs just for that. At some
point a developer think about a contract and some time later this is
just forgotten (even if clearly written in comment, who read comments!)
and then a crash arise. Don't tell me you've never run into such situation.

Pascal.

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