Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Re[5]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:47:26 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Pavel Tsekov" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4N9r9n07875 > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com] > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:31 AM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re[5]: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local > Directory / WinXP > > > Hello Robert, > > Well, this will fix the problem, but String::substr() will > still cause a crash if for some reason a NULL pointer is > passed to it! Btw have you read my mail till the end ? Yes. The String++ implementation currently uses the std class to implement substr. From a quick inspection the fault is in the string() constructor not returning an empty string when NULL is passed to it. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/