On null pointer arg, better to crash or throw exception?

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Published on 2010-05-29T03:39:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 3:42 UTC
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What is the preferred way to handle a null pointer passed in as an output argument to a function? I could ASSERT but I feel like its not good to let a library crash the program. Instead, I was thinking about using exceptions.

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