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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:26:35 +0200
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>
Subject:   Re: strdup(NULL) supposed to create SIGSEGV?
Message-ID:  <20080423162635.GA42593@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080423113951.020f0130@mbook-fbsd>
References:  <7d6fde3d0804222240j6b42b77yd86d8accb5a959fa@mail.gmail.com> <20080423025048.6b51a580@bhuda.mired.org> <5F412E73-29FC-4876-A6F0-9BC269876192@bitpowder.com> <20080423113951.020f0130@mbook-fbsd>

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> I think someone gave the reason I'm about to: trying to copy a NULL
> pointer means I have a bug somewhere earlier in my code that will
> eventually produce visibly wrong results - a segfault being such. The
> sooner that happens after the bug, the less code I have to search to
> find it, the better for me.

if only the fix was something else than

if (ptr != NULL)
   strdup(ptr);

:)



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