strlen on a NULL

Tue May 12 19:07:00 GMT 1998

Hi Ian,
>If I do a strlen on a NULL pointer I get a coredump.
>I have the same code running on a few *other* Unix machines with
>exhibiting this behaviour.
>OK, so I could tidy it up, but I wondered is this an oversight or the
>correct behaviour?

Don't know, whether it is the correct behaviour :)) at least it is the
expected one: How can you tell the length of a non existing string.
I don't know of any implementation of strlen, which behaves differently.
Bye.
Michael.
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