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Bug #13032
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printf(3C) should talk about NULL string pointers
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Description
The printf(3C) manual page has this to say on the subject of NULL pointers passed as the value argument for a %s conversion specifier:
An argument with a null value will yield undefined results.
This has not really been true since around 2009, when 6724478 was fixed in 9f773e28 -- though with an accompanying change to the documentation.
As noted in the original bug, everybody else prints some version of a diagnostic (null) string if passed a NULL pointer. It is unlikely that this could or should change again, so we should document and commit to that behaviour from now on.
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Updated by Electric Monk over 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 9fff840dca14d75459a8240b19c931e2fec186c5
commit 9fff840dca14d75459a8240b19c931e2fec186c5
Author: John Gardner <jgardner100@hotmail.com>
Date: 2020-08-24T23:49:05.000Z
13032 printf(3C) should talk about NULL string pointers
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
Reviewed by: C Fraire <cfraire@me.com>
Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omniosce.org>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
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