strtok behaviour when uninitialized

[Andreas Schwab]

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

> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 07:39:50PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I get that. Why keep it undefined?

Because it has no meaning.

Andreas.

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