Showing results for August 9, 2013 - The Old New Thing

When I was growing up, the mailman letter carrier came right to our front door. The mailbox was mounted on the front of the house right next to the front door. You could check the mail without even getting dressed; just open the door a crack and stick out your hand. Approximate distance from front door to mailbox: less than 1 foot. In the nex...

We saw some time ago that before invoking a method on an object, the CLR will generate a instruction to force a null reference exception to be raised if you are trying to invoke a method on a null reference. But why does the CLR raise a if the faulting address is almost but not quite zero? When run, this program raises a rather than an . ...