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		1718627440 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Note on Fil-C > when malloc() returns NULL? That's a crash - a well-behaved one (no UB involved) Wrong, dereferencing a NULL pointer is UB.

sph 4 months ago [–]

Which on UNIXes is a crash because the zero page is unmapped so you get a SIGSEGV

1718627440 4 months ago | [–]

Unless the compiler optimized the access away, or replaced it with a different address.

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