Sean McBride authored 12 years ago and Brad King committed 12 years ago

Some compilers, notably Clang, will warn at compile time (or
runtime with debug flags) if they detect a null dereference.
Try to outsmart them by dereferencing an address a little
larger than NULL.

Change-Id: I53c6512f814ad3e8977c076904f0415e8aaaaea5