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To: Seva Gluschenko <gvs@rinet.ru>
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: bin/52691: str[n][case]cmp may cause segmentation violation
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Seva Gluschenko <gvs@rinet.ru> writes:
> Message of Dag-Erling Smorgrav at May 26 13:53 ...
> > The bug is in the application that passes NULL to strcmp.
> Well, sir, can you please quote me some ISO C89 or another standard
> which allows str*cmp not to care about NULL pointers?

The behaviour of the str*() functions is only defined when the
pointers passed to them point to strings.  NULL is not a string
pointer.  If you disagree, the correct venue to discuss this is
comp.lang.c.std, not the FreeBSD PR database.

DES
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