I mght be wrong, but why not just initialize to NULL?
On 24 September 2014 10:10, Matti Karnaattu <mkarnaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that chmod.c have uninitialized variable char *ep that was
> used. This diff clarify what I mean.
>
>
> Index: chmod.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /OpenBSD/src/bin/chmod/chmod.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.30
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.30 chmod.c
> --- chmod.c 21 May 2014 06:23:01 -0000 1.30
> +++ chmod.c 24 Sep 2014 08:47:58 -0000
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> uid_t uid;
> gid_t gid;
> u_int32_t fclear, fset;
> - char *ep, *mode, *cp, *flags;
> + char *mode, *cp, *flags;
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> @@ -148,13 +148,11 @@ done:
> flags = *argv;
> if (*flags >= '0' && *flags <= '7') {
> errno = 0;
> - val = strtoul(flags, &ep, 8);
> + val = strtoul(flags, (char *)NULL, 8);
> if (val > UINT_MAX)
> errno = ERANGE;
> if (errno)
> err(1, "invalid flags: %s", flags);
> - if (*ep)
> - errx(1, "invalid flags: %s", flags);
> fset = val;
> oct = 1;
> } else {
> @@ -167,13 +165,11 @@ done:
> mode = *argv;
> if (*mode >= '0' && *mode <= '7') {
> errno = 0;
> - val = strtol(mode, &ep, 8);
> + val = strtol(mode, (char *)NULL, 8);
> if (val > INT_MAX || val < 0)
> errno = ERANGE;
> if (errno)
> err(1, "invalid file mode: %s", mode);
> - if (*ep)
> - errx(1, "invalid file mode: %s", mode);
> omode = val;
> oct = 1;
> } else {
>
>
