Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:24:15 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199706201124.HAA20041@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <33AB0C11.208D@blackmagic.tait.co.nz> (message from Bill Currie
	on Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:02:41 -0700)
Subject: Re: Possible misbehavior of write
Precedence: bulk


> I agree. In fact, I'm not convinced it's worth it.  There's a LOT of
> functions to change (fortunatly mostly copy,paste,paste...) and I don't
> want to do it (or even want to have the feature, realy).  I rather like
> getting page/seg faults when I goof, kindof sets off an H-bomb where the
> bug is;)

Consider, however, that you *don't* get a SEGV in Windows, if the
pointer is NULL.  I think it's worth it to do a quick check for NULL
in a few popular functions, and expand coverage later.