Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> Hi, I found the cause.
>> ...
>> Actual error occurs in vfprintf() because act->name can be NULL.
>> sprintf(..., "%s", NULL) could work on some platform (the result is 
>> '(null)'),
>> but it crashes on Windows (msvcrt). We need to avoid passing NULLs as
>> arguments to "%s" format for printf families.
>
> Hmm, Windows is hardly the only platform where that would crash.
> I'm surprised we don't have more buildfarm members complaining about
> this.

Actually I thought the behaviour of spitting out "(null)" was unique to glibc.

Don't we have plenty of BSD and other implementations?


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