On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:36 PM, 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.
Unless that null pointer points to an object that is of the wrong size (too large), such as an array or a structure.
