From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham) Subject: Re: strlen on a NULL 13 May 1998 00:25:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: <3557E6C4.EF2F27B3@kiwiplan.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ian@kiwiplan.co.nz (Ian Collins) Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > If I do a strlen on a NULL pointer I get a coredump. > I have the same code running on a few *other* Unix machines with > exhibiting this behaviour. > OK, so I could tidy it up, but I wondered is this an oversight or the > correct behaviour? This is a common behavior, and IMO, the correct behavior (if I am doing a strlen on a null variable, I want to know about it). Tim N. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".