Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:43:37 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Andrew White <awhite@dca.net> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug with gcc 2.6.2? Message-ID: <9510061443.AA04586@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951005215533.9169F-100000@dca.net> References: <199510051000.AA00067@Sysiphos> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951005215533.9169F-100000@dca.net>
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<<On Thu, 5 Oct 1995 21:56:13 -0400 (EDT), Andrew White <awhite@dca.net> said: > Thanks for your response. Of course you are right, a null string and a > null pointer are not the same. > However, it would be nice if the str* functions would not SIGSEV when > called with a null pointer, but rather failed more nicely. And waste everyone else's time in correctly-written programs? I think not. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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