Vincent Lefevre wrote, on 11 Sep 2024:
>
> On 2024-09-10 14:32:32 +0100, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open 
> Group wrote:
> > I can see that my earlier statement was a bit misleading. There doesn't
> > need to be an explicit statement that passing a null pointer is allowed,
> > just something that overrides that quoted text from 2.1.1.
> > 
> > The relevant part of 2.1.1 is of the form "unless explicitly stated
> > otherwise ... the behavior is undefined".  Any text that defines the
> > behaviour for a null pointer is sufficient to override this.
> 
> The case strnlen(0,0) is well defined by the strnlen description:
> the result is necessarily 0.
> 
> So it is valid, isn't it?

No. The strnlen description doesn't mention null pointers, so it
doesn't override the statment about null pointers in 2.1.1.

-- 
Geoff Clare <[email protected]>
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