Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 10:25:33 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: NULL pointers in (ANSI) string functions [was: strcat() ?]
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

>     If ANSI makes it illegal (not undefined), then the following
> discussion doesn't belong here (and I apologize), since GCC attempts
> to provide the option of ANSI conformance.  If it's undefined then
> theoretically DJ could provide more robust libraries

It might be nice to have a _debugging_ library which checked for things like
null pointers passed to strxxx() routines.  A related item: Borland compilers
tend to print "(null)" when you pass null to printf rather than crashing or
printing garbage.