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At Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:37:20 +0900,
JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> Note also that other *BSDs and Solaris use the "segfault" logic.  The
> freeaddrinfo implementation in the "libbind" library as a part of the
> ISC BIND package, which many UNIX-like OS vendors adopt (perhaps with
> vendor-specific modifications though), also segfaults against a NULL
> argument.
> 
> So, although consistency might in general be a good thing, the real
> world's examples show we just have variations.
> 

Sorry to come in late on this, but you know I was asleep.  One quick
comment.  It is easier to find and fix the bug that relating to a
NULL pointer if the program seg faults than if it continues blithely
on.  I think we should stick with failing early.

Later,
George