OSLib bug fixes (various)

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, at 12:31:48, Daniel Ellis <Daniel.Ellis at pace.co.uk>
wrote on the subject "OSLib bug fixes (various)":

>On Fri 12 Jan, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>> 
>> >+ Fixed null pointer dereferences in IndexHelp, BindHelp and DefMod -cstrong
>> The SCL, at least, treats null pointers to a string argument to *printf
>> the same as a pointer to a null string. However, I accept that this
>> behaviour is not defined, so I guess your proposal makes it more
>> portable.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean there.  There's no check in the SCL for the
>argument to printf being null.  printf(0) gives oflaofla... and if zero page
>(reading) is protected will cause a data abort.
>
What I mean is 
printf( "%s", NULL ) behaves the same way as printf( "%s", "" )

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