Re: svn_checksum_to_cstring_display() Re: svn commit: r1146270 - /subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS

On 07/13/2011 03:46 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> cmpilato_at_apache.org wrote on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 19:28:18 -0000:
>> * r1146214
>> Handle NULL inputs when stringifying svn_checksum_t.
>> @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ Candidate changes:
>> Avoids segfaults.
>> Votes:
>> +1: danielsh
>> + -0: cmpilato (problem is with callers, not implementation)
>
> Do you want to convert the 'return NULL;' into an assertion then?

Why? (I honestly don't see what's motivating any change at all here.) A
segfault in the function because of a NULL pointer deref; a segfault in the
caller because it tries to use what should be a string but is actually a
NULL (despite the docstring not foretelling this behavior, even); an
assert() ... these all look the same to me. :-)

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