Reminds me of why `this` should really be a reference and not a pointer:
https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#this

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:17 PM 'Thomas Lively' via emscripten-discuss <
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> I’m pretty sure that calling a method on a null pointer is undefined
> behavior. My guess is that at some point LLVM started recognizing and
> optimizing away this UB, which is why you’re seeing different behavior with
> newer versions of Emscripten.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 22:57 Александр Гурьянов <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a big code base that uses this pattern:
>>
>> ```
>>
>> int String::intValue() const {
>>     if (!this) {
>>         return 0;
>>     }
>>
>>    // ...
>> }
>>
>> int count = dict->stringForKey("count")->intValue();
>>
>> ```
>>
>> If *dict->stringForKey* returns *nullptr* then wasm is crashed, but
>> native works fine.
>> This code also worked fine with old versions of emscipten.
>>
>> I understand that this is ugly pattern, but I am curious if it can work
>> as before?
>>
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