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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:21:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: null parameters to functions
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:13:56AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Remembering all the effort that went into sanitising various userland
>function parameters a few months ago... newlib suffers from similar
>flaws (I just noticed one with strcmp (0, foo);).
>
>Is this something worth fixing?

Agh.  How does linux handle this?  Doe sit return EADDR or something?

cgf