From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: strcmp and nulls, one more time, Sam
Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:01:32 +0300
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, bowman wrote:

> 1. strcmp against a null will fail, causing a segfault under cwsdpmi,
> perhaps    not if using the Win95 dpmi.

IMHO, it's a bug in that package.  It shouldn't assume that a library
implementation handles NULL pointers gracefully.  (Windows 95 just
ignores null pointer dereferences, as we all know.)

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