Re: skipping past nil

[glen e. p. ropella]

>> Once upon a time, somewhere, someone recommended turning on a
>> feature of something, to make Swarm/GNU ObjC programs crash when a
>> message is sent to a nil pointer.  Unfortunately, I'd already made
>> lots of use of the skip- on-past-nil-without-notice feature, and
>> decided not to backtrack at the time.  So my app expects [nil
>> messagecall] to simply, quietly, do nothing.  But someone else is
>> trying to build it on a Linux box, and it crashes on this
>> construct.
>> 
>> Could anyone tell me what the magic word was that makes this
>> construct ignored successfully?  I can't find it in the GNU gcc man
>> page.

Supposedly, the newer versions of the Objc gcc do this by 
default.

glen