On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 04:31:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Null pointers are not a safety issue. Safety means no memory corruption.
That's all well and good until you corrupt the interrupt vector table through a null pointer. We are talking about kernels after all.
(though i think this is different in 32 and 64 bit, but as you'll probably remember, the interrupt table in 16 bit DOS was located at address 0.)
