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Re: svn commit: r32702 - trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:14:02 -0700

Philip Martin wrote:
> hwright_at_tigris.org writes:
>
>> Author: hwright
>> Date: Mon Aug 25 11:46:31 2008
>> New Revision: 32702
>>
>> Log:
>> If parsing a NULL pointer into a checksum, don't crash, but just return a
>> NULL checksum instead.
>>
>> * subversion/libsvn_subr/checksum.c
>> (svn_checksum_parse_hex): If given NULL hex, return a NULL checksum.
>>
>> Modified:
>> trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/checksum.c
>
> Strange thing to support in my view. If it is going to behave this
> way it needs to be documented in the header at the very least, even
> better would be a regression test. Giving the code undocumented
> "magic" behaviour is a bad idea.

Wouldn't it be better to have SVN_ASSERT(hex != NULL) for the hex argument then
allow a NULL string return a NULL checksum? This sounds like its opening up to
easier bugs

Blair

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