"Peter Alexander" <peter.alexander...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:vicaibqyaerogseqs...@forum.dlang.org... >> >> It's defined. The operating system protects you. You get a segfault on >> *nix and >> an access violation on Windows. > > False. > > [snip] > > You only get an error if there is a memory access involved (vtable, member > data etc.) >
It _is_ defined, you get an access violation whenever there's a dereference. Yes, you can call some types of member functions without any dereferences, but this is alse well defined and sometimes quite useful.
