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Re: On grub_strchr implementation
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Robert Millan |
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Re: On grub_strchr implementation |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:47:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:21:52AM +0530, BVK wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > But you also added a check for NULL dereference. Is that also required by
> > the standard?
> >
>
> Standard doesn't say anything about it, so I guess it means, it is
> left for implementations. Old grub_strchr implementation has this
> check, so kept it as it is. I didn't want to break any code if it is
> assuming this behavior.
>
> I just saw that other functions like, grub_strcmp, etc. don't check
> for NULL dereference, so its better to remove this check. I will send
> a new patch.
Hi,
Please see the commit I did yesterday. Does this suffice?
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