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From: paolo@to.sem.it (Paolo Zeppegno)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Major strcmp bug under BSD 2.0?
Date: 10 Jun 1995 12:18:08 +0200
Organization: Systems & Management S.p.A.
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Sorry, but I remember seeing (null) printed for a printf("%s", 0) about
12 years ago on a pdp11/34 running V6 (or maybe at that time it had been
upgraded to either V7 or BSD 2.7?), anyway at that time I found it very
nice of them to let me know my code had a problem (besides (null) may
actually be the right answer for printf("%s", 0)...
I don't think that checking for NULL in the str* routines is the right
approach though.
paolo zeppegno