[6813] in Athena Bugs
Re: Guaranteed null pointer deref in xlib
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 7 09:23:20 1991
To: marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 07 Jan 91 02:16:42 -0500.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 91 09:23:03 EST
From: Ralph Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
If the second arg is NULL...
Nowhere in the Xlib specification does it say that Xlib will validate
pointer arguments and report meaningful errors if the programmer makes
a mistake. libc.a does precisely the same thing all over the place...
The right way to "fix" this is to use an ANSI compiler.
