On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:53:06PM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:Besides that, trust isn't the issue, but rather what useful information can be gathered. How useful is it to know "someone called pstrdup() with a null pointer"? Not very, IMNSHO.
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The particular assertion that was proposed doesn't strike me as terribly useful - It should be checked at the point of call rather than inside pstrdup, I should have thought.Are you going to trust the client of that function ?
Yes, because it can only used in backend code and C functions, which can be written only by a trusted user ('cause C is an untrusted language).
(I might be wrong...)
cheers
andrew
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