Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:29 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Seva Gluschenko <gvs@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/52691: str[n][case]cmp may cause segmentation violation with NULL pointers passed Message-ID: <xzp1xyk20ki.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030527121942.W33922@road.demos.su> (Seva Gluschenko's message of "Tue, 27 May 2003 12:20:37 %2B0400 (MSD)") References: <200305262053.h4QKr3GB026031@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030527121942.W33922@road.demos.su>
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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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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