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Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers
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purplesyringa's blog Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leading to…
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