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Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1

From: James Cameron <cameron AT stl.dec.com>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 09:06:32 +1100

Even so, a blanket macro that makes strlen ignore a NULL pointer isn't
really going to help much ... because invariably the next line of code
is going to need a string pointer that isn't NULL. Taken down one bug
only to expose the real one. If a string is to be zero length, it has
to point to a NUL character, not have a pointer value of NULL.

--
James Cameron (james.cameron AT compaq.com)

http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/

Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Johnny Elliott, 11/05/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, James Cameron, 11/05/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Franco Gasperino, 11/05/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Brian Bruns, 11/05/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Johnny Elliott, 11/06/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, James Cameron, 11/06/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Brian Bruns, 11/06/2001
- Re: Core Dumping Solution on FreeTDS-0.53pre1, Johnny Elliott, 11/07/2001