C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily [LWN.net]

C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily

Posted Aug 21, 2009 7:17 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily by njs
Parent article: Null pointers, one month later

So... instead of getting null pointer dereferences, we get
cannot_convert_null exceptions from the pointer conversion?

I still don't see any robustness benefit here.

(Of course proving that pointers cannot be null at compile time is
impossible in the general case.)

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