Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok then -- you'd prefer it like this?