Nigel Titley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It works because in most cases a null pointer to a string is converted
> to a pointer to a null string or to "(null)". A static should be
> initialised to 0.
Nigel, clearly my sarcasm didn't make it across. I know why this
works _ON LINUX_... But printing a NULL pointer is not portable. My
exclamation of "how did this ever work" is based on the fact that this
code has been in every 1.8 release and nobody else has reported it,
and there is no way this has ever worked on Solaris (and probably
other platforms).
Your example was not necessary -- I know this behavior very well.
You will notice lots of places in the code where there is:
printf ("%s", foo ? foo : "(null)");
*I* added those! So I am well aware of the problem (and that it's
not a problem on Linux).
-derek
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