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Re: null parameters to functions
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:13:56AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Remembering all the effort that went into sanitising various userland
> >function parameters a few months ago... newlib suffers from similar
> >flaws (I just noticed one with strcmp (0, foo);).
> >
> >Is this something worth fixing?
>
> Agh. How does linux handle this? Doe sit return EADDR or something?
>
IIRC, it's not an error in Linux land or most *nixes for that matter.
It OS dependent on how addressing a null pointer is handled. Looking at
the man page from HPUX 11 it says that null pointer values are treated
as empty strings.
Earnie.
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