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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
Date: 27 Jan 2006 09:30:09 -0600
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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.