Aggelos Economopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Matthew Dillon wrote: > [...] >> In libthread_xu it assumes non-NULL and will crash. >> >> Try this patch. It will do the same check that libc_r does. I'm >> not convinced that Qt isn't broken, though, Qt shouldn't be passing >> NULL to the mutex functions, it should be passing the address of >> a pthread_mutex_t which itself can be NULL, but it should be passing >> NULL. > > Still, it's bad form for a library function to crash just because somebody > called it with an obviously invalid argument.
Not sure about that. There are many illeagal pointers that can't be catched so why treat NULL differently? And a crash with an obvious stack trace shows that there is a problem that should be fixed. Johannes
