Re: [HACKERS] Backend terminated abnormally

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> I wrote:
> > Actually, the missing clue seems to be that it's cool on HPUX and
> > coredumps on Linux.  Bigendian vs. littleendian bug maybe?  I'm on
> > it...
> 
> Well, isn't *this* special: it seems that memmove(dest, NULL, n)
> doesn't cause a coredump on HPUX, it just silently does nothing.
> Sheesh.  I hardly ever use memmove, or I would've found this out
> before (and complained about it!).

HP is notorious for this.  Pass a null pointer to its atoi() and it'll
return zero.  Same thing on IRIX64.  Do this on a *BSD or Linux machine
and it'll segfault.

Vince.
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