Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 16:36:43 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: NULL pointers in (ANSI) string functions [was: strcat() ?]

> 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.

I think a stack trace (or gdb exception) is the best kind of debugging
- "It broke - HERE"

printf in djgpp also prints (null) when %s gets a NULL pointer.