From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 19 19:42:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA19750 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 19:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19741 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 19:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00729; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:09:23 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710200239.MAA00729@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrew Kenneth Milton cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PThread In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:54:28 GMT." <199710201154.LAA06957@mother.sneaker.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:09:23 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > +-----[ Joao Carlos Mendes Luis ]------------------------------ > | > | PS: I really wonder how Solaris can run wrong code and do not > | complain at all... :) > > I'll drift off topic here and just say, that HPUX lets you dereference > NULL pointers as many times as you want, without skipping a beat. They > always return NULL though, not random data, so I suppose it's an > alternative form of robustness. This is called "mapping page zero", and it is a concession to all those stupid programmers out there that don't have the brains Zoroaster gave a rock. mike (Apologies to any Zoroastrians out there that feel that rocks weren't so hard done by as I am implying.)