On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:27:47PM +0000, Michael Wojcik wrote:
> Unfortunately writing proper C is a rare skill - relatively few C
> programmers have ever even read the language specification - and much C
> code is saddled with lots of ancient technical debt. Also, of course, it
> often doesn't make economic sense to accommodate rare implementations.
In the case of OpenSSL, the issue was well understood, and upon
consideration a decision was made to not support platforms where
the memory representation of NULL is not zero. A test was written
to make sure that non-conformant platforms are detected.
By way of contrast, the Postfix project supports non-zero NULLs,
and explicitly initializes pointer-valued member fields in structures.
Neither project simply ignores the issue.
--
Viktor.
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