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Re: core dump with svn r6178

From: Christian Daudt <csd_ob_at_daudt.org>
Date: 2003-06-19 22:19:07 CEST

On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:42, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Christian Daudt <csd_ob@daudt.org> writes:
> > But the fact is that, regardless of the problem that caused the code
> > to call stringbuf_set with null (which remains to be fixed) ,
> > svn_stringbuf_set shouldn't coredump because it received a value it
> > doesn't like.
>
> On the contrary, we specifically allow that function to segfault on
> bad input because it helps us to find *real* bugs in the code. If we
> simply papered over the problem, we'd have a much harder time tracking
> down, for example, the bug you're seeing. And for what gain?
>

So someone else doesn't spend a morning trying to figure why they're getting
coredumps all of the sudden...
 Here is an alternative patch.

 csd

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