But it does keep one in the habit of using NULL checks.
It is pointless, because in Linux all you get is a virtual address. Physical backing is only allocated on first use.
In other words, the first time you access a "freshly allocated" non-null pointer you may get a page fault due to insufficient physical memory.
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It is pointless, because in Linux all you get is a virtual address. Physical backing is only allocated on first use.
In other words, the first time you access a "freshly allocated" non-null pointer you may get a page fault due to insufficient physical memory.