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C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easilyC and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easilyPosted Aug 21, 2009 19:10 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily by dgm Parent article: Null pointers, one month later
Yes, those changes would make the idea genuinely useful. They'd also break
compatibility with almost all previous code: this from a language so conservative that by word-of-dmr the precedence of && and || was intentionally set wrong so as to avoid breaking code running on three sites :)
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C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily Posted Aug 22, 2009 1:10 UTC (Sat) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
Yeah, it's more of a thought experiment, though one could enable it only for certain (new) compilation units, or treat them as annotations for a tool like sparse.
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