4 Aug
2008
4 Aug
'08
8:20 p.m.
[nil pointer deref story]
It took me a bit of time to convince the guys that both
implementations were valid and that it wasn't a "Solaris bug".
I ran into a related issue recently. A moderately popular open source
project uses nonportable constructs involving varargs function calls,
passing NULL, uncast, as a varargs argument and expecting it to be a
nil pointer when fetched in the called function. Between a lack of
implementations to point to where it'll fail and some very creative
reading of the standard on the part of the "other side", I was unable
to convince them this was invalid code....
Grrr.
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