> I agree with this -- it sounds like any justification for printing
> "(null)" is based on the fact that it is actually used, and there
> is no good reason for fputs() to not have the same checking, other than
> that puts() is rarely called with NULL.

i really think this kind of "suppress coredump" thing is a bad practice.
if you want explicit checks, _DIAGASSERT is for you.

YAMAMOTO Takashi