Who called it "malloc()"...

[Fueled By Decaff]

I would call it bob_hope()

[Daniel Pfeffer]

Nothing wrong with the name, but I would have made the side-effects of dereferencing a NULL return value much more [spectacular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhUnSOBTbM8). :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[honey the codewitch]

😡😡😡😡

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[trønderen]

We made some software where new object were created by GOD - the General Object Dispenser.

[dandy72]

I'm sure the coding style would result in a religious war.

[DRHuff]

Could have just gone with Allahc!

If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

[Gary R Wheeler]

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

I would have made the side-effects of dereferencing a NULL return value much more spectacular

CRASH! isn't spectacular enough for you?

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary R Wheeler]

I knew that one was coming. Of course y'all realize you're goin' to hell in a not-particularly-comfortable handbasket, now don't ya?

Software Zen: delete this;

[Daniel Pfeffer]

That's only relevant to protected-memory O/Ses (most of them, these days, I'll grant). Running on good old DOS, you could easily read (and sometimes write) to NULL, while your program went off into hyperspace. If every NULL reference cost the perpetrator money out of pocket (e.g. if the computer literally crashed and burned), I'm sure that software quality would have been much higher.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[Gary R Wheeler]

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

Running on good old DOS, you could easily read (and sometimes write) to NULL

Back in the day my product ran under the DOS4GW extender (just like DOOM!). In that environment I had both real-mode and protected-mode code for things like interrupt services in order to reduce unnecessary mode switches. Dereferencing NULL meant different things happened depending on which mode you were in. My hindsight has cataracts, so good times.

Software Zen: delete this;