From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 22 16:02:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23651 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA23629 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zLbRJ-0000Zb-00; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:01:45 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA04905; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:01:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199809222301.RAA04905@harmony.village.org> To: Mark Tinguely Subject: Re: FYI: function call failures Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:07:14 CDT." <199809221907.OAA07181@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <199809221907.OAA07181@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:01:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199809221907.OAA07181@plains.NoDak.edu> Mark Tinguely writes: : from comp.arch a reference (http://www.ices.cmu.edu/ballista/ftcs98/) to : a test of function call failures. FreeBSD did not fair too well compared : to other OSes. Looking at this, they are under the mistaken impression that things like strlen(NULL) shouldn't produce a core file. A robust system *WILL* produce a core file to show the developer of his error, rather than guess what the right thing to do is. Also, the code to generate the programs used to test things is unavailable. Boring and uninteresting, imho. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message