On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:30:53PM +1100, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 
> >what i don't understand here is, why you think NULL initialization is
> >better wrt future bugs.
> > 
> >
> Would a dereference of the NULL ptr not cause immediate failure?  As 
> opposed to dereference of garbage ptr which may or may not fail 
> immediately? and in such a case potentially corrupt some other (possibly 
> unrelated) memory which would lead to a fault/crash later that were 
> harder to trace back to the original bad dereference?

Yes, it will.

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