In either C or C++, should I check pointer parameters against NULL/nullptr?

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I\'ve always been of the philosophy that the callee is never responsible when the caller does something stupid, like passi

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I don't think it's the responsibility of the callee to deal with such things

If it doesn't take this responsibility it might create bad results, like dereferencing NULL pointers. Problem is that it always implicitly takes this responsibility. That's why i prefer graceful handling.