On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:15:35PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> > So I'm looking at the value strings, and I'm wondering why we should
> > terminate them with {0, NULL} and what happens if one of the value
> > pairs needs to be {0, "a real string"} ?
>
> You can still use 0, "a real string" as one of the entries. You just
> need to have 0, NULL as the final entry. If you don't, the code will
> keep reading past the end and run into random memory space looking for
> that 0, NULL entry.
And one of those overruns might actually cause the crash you were
talking about.
Cia
o Joerg
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