Re: Reference to show that if (this == NULL) implies undefined behaviour

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Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>

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Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:27:41 -0800 (PST)

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On 2011-11-10 19:11:44 +0000, Carlos Moreno said:

On 11-11-09 03:58 PM, Pete Becker wrote:

[ ... ] In the original example (no
inheritance, no virtual functions involved) there's no good reason for
a compiler to generate code that does unexpected things.

Huh??? (care to elaborate on how exactly you define "unexpected"
in the above sentence?? :-) )

What do you mean "no good reason"??? You don't find the fact that
this *is not allowed to be NULL* reason enough for the compiler to
optimize away that if, thus guaranteeing that the program will
crash ???

Gosh, you're cherry-picking from my response. But, yes, optimization is
perhaps a good reason. What I was pointing out is that this typically
works, but is not guaranteed. Which is, if I recall correctly, what I
explicitly said in text that you snipped.

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What kind of "coincidences" are these?]

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