Comment by prerok

> crash in a C program that turned out to be due to the compiler removing a null check.

The what now? Though not lately, I did program in C for 15 years and never seen something like this. I did see some compiler bugs on obscure platforms (SINIX, IRIX, HPUX on Itanium64, etc.) with proprietary compilers, this kind of thing would make really get me shouting.

Were you able to determine why the compiler did this? Is it a bug in the compiler?