Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> The sad thing here is that it's really the bug-ridden application code >> that mishandles NULL pointers that's of poor quality, so it's not >> OpenSolaris's reputation that should be at stake. > > Oh I agree completely but we are the odd one out here. I apologize for interjecting in this discussion, but, wouldn't the character string "(null)" or "(nichts)" or "<NULL>" being printed on stdout/stderr act as a clear indicator of the bug, and of its precise location ? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to figure out where the NULL pointer is, without having to load a core file in dbx ? --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
