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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: porting Linux apps to BSD !
Date: 25 Aug 1995 15:15:28 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Peter Much <peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
>I think so, too. Where else could that code reside? 4.5.26 still prints
>"(null)"; seems to have been changed later. Good idea, anyway.
But i think that (null) is just a feature of the printf family: before
dereferencing a string pointer, it is being checked for a NULL
dereference. Quite as useful as a core dump, since you can also
easily spot where it happens (IMHO).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)