From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: strlen on a NULL
15 May 1998 16:45:58 -0700
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To: Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de>
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On 13-May-1998, Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de> wrote:
> Valery Fine [fine AT bnl DOT gov] wrote:
> 
> >On 12 May 98 at 13:42, Kjeld DOT F DOT Christensen AT dxd DOT erics wrote:
> >
> >> On NT your process may lie anywhere, but never in ZERO, Thus you are
> >> not permitted to read from adress NULL. (You are not allowed to
> >> snoop around in the interrupt vetors!)
> >
> >  Some int strlen(char *s) is started with
> >
> >  int strlen(char *s){
> >   if (s==0) return 0;
>                      ^
>                      *This is really incorrect behaviour* !

No, the behaviour in this case is UNDEFINED -- that means that
ANY behaviour is correct behaviour.

Of course, strlen() should be

	size_t strlen(const char *s)

not

	int strlen(char *s)

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