On Friday, April 8th, 2022 at 15:21, Grigory Vasilyev <h0tc0d3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Simon Ser and Bas Nieuwenhuizen, do you understand that you are > proposing to make the code less safe in the future? In the future, > someone might rewrite the code and we'll get an error. I don't think we should blindly add NULL checks for all functions which take a pointer as argument. This makes it way more complicated to find a bug when the function is mis-used. Crashing is better because it indicates a programmer error. In the future, any new call with a NULL pointer will produce a clear error. Using pointers for output values is a common pattern in C, it allows a function to return multiple values.
