dereferenced NULL in setup-2.529 (possible patch)

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Also, I'd test on my XP system but it is consistently dereferencing a
> NULL :-(. (On W2k3 R2 it did that *once* and has since run just fine.)

I built setup (from the 2.529 tarball) and ran it in gdb, and got this 
stack trace:

#0  0x77c470d0 in msvcrt!memcpy () from 
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll
#1  0x004566ca in new_cstr_char_array (s=@0x174fb7c) at String++.cc:294
#2  0x004527cc in do_download_site_info_thread (p=0x4dbd40) at site.cc:330
#3  0x7c80b50b in KERNEL32!GetModuleFileNameA () from 
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
#4  0x004dbd40 in std::__ioinit ()
#5  0x00000401 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000002 in ?? ()
#7  0x004dbd40 in std::__ioinit ()
#8  0x7ffde000 in ?? ()
#9  0x823c2600 in ?? ()
#10 0x0174ffc0 in ?? ()
#11 0x82026bf0 in ?? ()
#12 0xffffffff in ?? ()
#13 0x7c8399f3 in KERNEL32!FindAtomW () from 
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
#14 0x7c80b518 in KERNEL32!GetModuleFileNameA () from 
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
#15 0x00000000 in ?? () from

...it looks like new_cstr_char_array pukes if the 's' is empty (i.e. 
s.theData == NULL). This is an easy (almost trivial) fix, but I'm not 
sure that the fact that 's' is empty is not a bigger problem.

Anyway, if it's OK for 's' to be empty, here's a patch (this *seems* to 
work, i.e. no crash and I didn't notice anything else blatantly "funky"):

=== String++.cc : 289
  char *
  new_cstr_char_array (const String &s)
  {
    size_t len = s.size() + 1;
    char *buf = new char[len];
-  memcpy (buf, s.c_str (), len);
+  if (len > 1)
+    memcpy (buf, s.c_str (), len);
+  else
+    buf[0] = 0;
    return buf;
  }

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