From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: strlen on a NULL 14 May 1998 10:21:16 -0700 Message-ID: <6tl3-Ka4pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Valery Fine [fine@bnl.gov] wrote: >On 12 May 98 at 13:42, Kjeld.F.Christensen@dxd.erics wrote: > >> On NT your process may lie anywhere, but never in ZERO, Thus you are >> not permitted to read from adress NULL. (You are not allowed to >> snoop around in the interrupt vetors!) > > Some int strlen(char *s) is started with > > int strlen(char *s){ > if (s==0) return 0; ^ *This is really incorrect behaviour* ! Nothing also doesn't have length of zero. If the function can handle zero pointers, the only correct behaviour AFAIK is to return -1 and set "errno" as appropriate. > . . . > } > > but not all. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".