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Re: [commit] linespec.c, decode_line_1, check for null.
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:43:27, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2011 20:57:30, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >> If it's worth checking for null, it's worth doing so before the first
> >> dereference.
> >
> > Well, then it may not be worth checking for null. How old is
> > that code?
>
> It predates me, and I've been on gdb since 1995. ;-)
:-)
Then I think it's safe to say that if we haven't seen
a NULL-dereference crash in over 15 years, it's because it's
not really necessary.
--
Pedro Alves