On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 00:18:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
And that is not dereferencing null, it is dereferencing 0x1000000.
Yes, but it is worth noting that dmd will happily compile that code, even if marked @safe - just because the pointer on the language level is null doesn't mean it is memory safe at the assembly level.
the generated code with @safe is still just what we'd expect too: 3: 31 c0 xor eax,eax5: c7 80 00 00 10 00 0a mov DWORD PTR [eax+0x100000],0xa
