strtok behaviour when uninitialized

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Sun Feb 11 18:53:00 GMT 2018


On Feb 11 2018, Salil Kapur <salilkapur93@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it make sense to add a NULL check and not let strtok throw a
> segfault?

No.  This is undefined behaviour, and a crash is a valid and somewhat
appropriate reaction.

Andreas.

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