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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 21:42:58 -0600
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject: strcmp and nulls, one more time, Sam
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I found a some discussion in the archives, but no resolution. Just for
my clarification:

1. strcmp against a null will fail, causing a segfault under cwsdpmi,
perhaps    not if using the Win95 dpmi.

2. this is a djgpp feature or misfeature, and not a bug.

3. ported packages that assume a graceful failure of strcmp will need a
test    of parameters, and some additional logic to handle the null.

4. ANSI C does not stipulate that strcmp should handle nulls.


Hacking around the problem is no big deal, I just want to have my ducks
in a row before I bring the problem back to the maintainers of the
package in question.