From: fiore AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu (Joseph N Fiore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strcmp("anything",NULL) -> error ??
Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:27:03 GMT
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Amit Barak (abarak AT iil DOT intel DOT com) wrote:
: it seems that calling 'strcmp(..)' with one of its arguments equals
: a null pointer causes run-time error (Page fault)
: is this normal behavior (compared to other compilers) ?

It is with:
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /util/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2/2.7.2.1/specs
gcc version 2.7.2.1

And thanks for reminding me.  I knew there was a way to segfault w/ strcmp
and I'm trying to track a down problem in a large project.
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Joe <fiore AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu>
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