On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Kelly Martin wrote: > On 29 Aug 2001 16:59:18 -0500, Larry Ewing <lewing@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > >Ah so it is the libraries fault that it crashes when you pass it an > >unterminated string? > > Yes, in this case bad design on the part of the library designer for > allowing such behavior. I realize that the use of null-terminated > strings is a legacy of the original C runtime library. That doesn't > mean that it's right. > > Kelly So it's the library's fault if I pass it a bad pointer and it causes a SEGV? Stephen -- Stephen Norris srn@xxxxxxxxx Farrow Norris Pty Ltd +61 417 243 239
