"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For a workaround, read the man page ld.so.1(1), specifically the NOTES
> section where it mentions /usr/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]  That provides behavior
> that is _not_ correct or portable, but is compatible with some systems
> (I remember that SVR2 on the 3B15 let one treat a NULL pointer as
> a pointer to a zero-length string).  In the case of puts(NULL), that

Correct, I believe that at least one of the utilities on Solaris-2.1
still did dump core because the AT&T Authors did asume that dereferencing
argv[argc] was not a mistake.

Jörg

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