From: rminnich AT sarnoff DOT com (Ron G. Minnich)
Subject: Re: strlen on a NULL
12 May 1998 19:06:37 -0700
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To: Ian Collins <ian AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz>
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On Tue, 12 May 1998, Ian Collins wrote:
> 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 ABSOLUTELY correct behavior!

ron
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