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It all starts to unravel badly once we get here:

> In theory, null is still a perfectly valid memory address

Crucially C's pointers are not addresses. So now we're at best talking only about Odin, which wasn't the subject of Tony's "Billion dollar problem" claim in the first place.

And honestly I doubt that in practice Odin's pointers are just addresses either because Odin uses LLVM.



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