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Re: NULL dereference ? why not ?

Thank you all.

Is my summary ok:

NULL is set to zero usually (but not necessarily on some architectures ?).

zero can be a legit physical address.

by design, zero cannot be a legit virtual address, so it is used
as a "magic" value that marks pointers as non-legit.

Thank You.
Naziir.

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