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Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:43:47 -0500 |
From: | Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: null parameters to functions |
References: | <01c901c1ba5b$e3dee330$0200a8c0 AT lifelesswks> <20020220222124 DOT GD3196 AT redhat DOT com> |
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:13:56AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >Remembering all the effort that went into sanitising various userland > >function parameters a few months ago... newlib suffers from similar > >flaws (I just noticed one with strcmp (0, foo);). > > > >Is this something worth fixing? > > Agh. How does linux handle this? Doe sit return EADDR or something? > IIRC, it's not an error in Linux land or most *nixes for that matter. It OS dependent on how addressing a null pointer is handled. Looking at the man page from HPUX 11 it says that null pointer values are treated as empty strings. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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