Re: [Full-disclosure] Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 13): surprising and inconsistent behaviour, sloppy coding, sloppy QA, sloppy documentation

Mario Vilas mvi...@gmail.com wrote: This may be a silly question, so I apologize in advance, but that would exactly be the advantage here? Using a NULL pointer is in most (if not all) those cases undocumented behavior to begin with. Unless I'm missing something, the problem is not so much

[Full-disclosure] Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 13): surprising and inconsistent behaviour, sloppy coding, sloppy QA, sloppy documentation

Hi @ll, the Win32 API is full of idiosyncrasies resp. surprising and inconsistent, poorly tested and documented behaviour. Just to pick one: NULL pointer as string argument. 0. lstrlen(NULL) lstrcat(NULL, ...) and lstrcat(..., NULL) lstrcmp(NULL, ...) and lstrcmp(..., NULL)