On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 18:46:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] > > I see no problem whatsoever requiring that the platform segfaults > > when you dereference null. Anything even vaguely modern will do > > that. Adding extra null checks is therefore redundant and > > complicates the compiler for no gain whatsoever. > > Except that when someone gets (root) access to any modern Linux > servers running D services he now has an easy way to create a denial > of service attack the owner of the server won't easily be able to find > the cause of, because pretty much everything *looks* right, except > that somehow the D services hang.
If someone malicious has root access to your server, you already have much bigger things to worry about than D services hanging. :-D T -- Don't get stuck in a closet---wear yourself out.