Oct. 27, 2022
3:47 p.m.
<<On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:38:42 +0100, "Clive D.W. Feather via tz" <tz@iana.org> said:
Why not? You're assuming that NULL is represented by 32 or 64 zero bits [1]. That's not what all computers do. Unusual architectures may do something completely different
I don't want to speak for Paul, but I think it is a true statement that such an "unusual architecture" would be unsaleable today. Even CHERI uses all-bits-zero-and-untagged as a null pointer. -GAWollman