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RE: nullable pointers

RE: nullable pointers

Posted Apr 5, 2011 6:27 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: RE: nullable pointers by neilbrown
Parent article: GCC 4.6.0 released

I think academics tend to dislike NULL is because it makes it harder to formally prove code correct. I'm kind of surprised nobody brought this up yet.


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