IsBadXxxPtr should really be called CrashProgramRandomly

Raymond ChenSeptember 27, 2006Sep 27, 200609/27/06

Often I'll see code that tries to "protect" against invalid pointer parameters. This is usually done by calling a function like IsBadWritePtr. But this is a bad idea. IsBadWritePtr should really be called CrashProgramRandomly. The documentation for the IsBadXxxPtr functions presents the technical reasons why, but I'm going to dig a little ...