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From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Simun Mikecin <numisemis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >If you're going to quote documents to support your ideas, it's probably
> >better to read them first.
> 
> My apologies. My fingers were faster than my mind. But this made me read it the way I should have
> done in the first place. And I see that it says:
> "A null pointer is returned if the new string cannot be created."
> 
> Does that also mean that a null pointer is returned if the input is a NULL pointer (cause in that
> case new string could not be created)?

Are you sure? I'd say that the act of returning a NULL pointer created
the not-really-a-string that was passed in.

    <mike

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