Subject: Re: bad diagassert in UTF8 module
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/12/2005 00:16:21
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:04:27AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
> I didn't analyze at the others, because the patches don't carry enough
> context with them, but this change looks adventurous to me. What would
> be the point of not testing for a NULL pointer before memsetting, thus
> getting a SEGV instead of whatever assert() uses?

As written above, sizeof(*ei) == 0, the memset is a nop.

Joerg