From:	newsham AT lava DOT net (Tim Newsham)
Subject:	Re: strlen on a NULL
13 May 1998 00:25:36 -0700 :
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To:	ian AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz (Ian Collins)
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> If I do a strlen on a NULL pointer I get a coredump.
> I have the same code running on a few *other* Unix machines with
> exhibiting this behaviour.
> OK, so I could tidy it up, but I wondered is this an oversight or the
> correct behaviour?

This is a common behavior, and IMO, the correct behavior (if I am doing
a strlen on a null variable, I want to know about it).

                                      Tim N.
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