On 06 Mar 2007 10:43:51 -0800, Tamas Marki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 06 Mar 2007 10:18:45 -0800, vermilions276 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  shudn't this piece of code give me a null pointer exception?it ran
> >  without any exception and printed 0.not even after the program has
> >  finished execution.Under what circumstances can this happen?  am i
> >  just missing something?

If you're deliberately trying to invoke an exception, you could always
try assigning something to *p....

> The result of dereferencing a null poiner is undefined. That includes
> 'runs without any exception and prints 0'.

... though as pointed out above, if you're not getting an exception
reading it, you may not get an exception writing to it.


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PJH
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