Referencing through a null pointer
Bob Toxen
bob at cloud9.UUCP
Thu Apr 28 12:05:38 AEST 1988
It's not the VAX that is braindamaged so much as the programs.
We added the same fix/brain-damage to our Stratus UNIX product.
Anything that increases the reliability of the customer's system
should be considered an improvement, pretty or ugly. At my
previous company we let the customers find the refs thru 0.
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Bob Toxen {ucbvax!ihnp4,harvard,cloud9!es}!anvil!cavu!bob
Stratus Computer, Marlboro, MA
Pilot to Copilot: What's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?
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