David Daney wrote:
Perhaps not in general, but one unstated premise of this whole thread is that for some GCC targets (most Unix like operating systems) you *can* count on a SIGSEGV when you dereference a null pointer. The java front end takes advantage of this fact to eliminate explicit checks for dereferencing of null pointers.
Oh. Speaking of which, has anyone ported gcj to a MMU-less uClinux platform yet? Bernd