[Thus spake James Chacon ("JC: ") 1:20pm...]

JC: The bug you cite doesn't discuss that. It's simply noting that
JC: printf("%s", NULL) is undefined behavior so basically they're allowed
JC: to core dump there even on translations to puts().

This is confusing:  Why does printf("%s", NULL) attempt to translate
into puts() (or am I misreading something here)?

I can see it doing so on literals with no formatting...

If printf() with a NULL dumps core, AND f?puts() with a NULL dumps core,
well, this is certainly no different than it was when I was programming
for my CS class.

I also don't see what "(null)" really buys, as more often than not I run
into dereferencing objects which don't point to NULL, but rather to
someplace in West Hyperspace.  I guess it's good for catching the id[10].t
cases where one forgets to assign/test values of pointers (although vars
in subroutines are not guaranteed to be initialised to zero...hence my
comment...).

Sorry for distracting.

				--*greywolf;
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