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From: "jg at jguk dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug libc/9819] readdir segmentation faults when passed NULL Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:51:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-9819-131-XG75EkOsor@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw) In-Reply-To: <bug-9819-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9819 --- Comment #8 from Jon Grant <jg at jguk dot org> 2011-11-13 00:51:12 UTC --- C standard specifies: "The macro NULL is defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers) as a null pointer constant; see 7.17." It's in stddef.h, NULL is not an uninitialised value, NULL is a part of the language. It's often set by the developer, and other times it's returned by functions like fopen. For these reasons the "null pointer constant" is provided, to be checked, not to be a feature of the language that is ignored. Re read vs fread, I would have thought if(NULL == ptr) would be exactly the same 4 instruction cost that it is in the user space as kernel. If read() checking for NULL + returning error code is not standard, really it should be IMHO. Could be in the POSIX standard. -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-13 0:51 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <bug-9819-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> 2011-09-27 21:46 ` jg at jguk dot org 2011-09-28 3:12 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2011-10-03 23:52 ` jg at jguk dot org 2011-10-04 0:36 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2011-10-28 23:59 ` jg at jguk dot org 2011-10-29 0:19 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2011-11-13 0:51 ` jg at jguk dot org [this message] 2014-07-01 20:58 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2009-02-04 17:53 [Bug libc/9819] New: " rbanfield at weogeo dot com 2009-02-04 18:05 ` [Bug libc/9819] " drepper at redhat dot com
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