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| author | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2012-08-17 01:12:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com> | 2012-08-17 01:12:10 +0000 |
| commit | 81f3e4f4a8d8cb3dde54c351ca4838b2bd455e3f (patch) | |
| tree | 9b6af48117a03043dd03439a68f38f83d94b7ae8 /doc | |
| parent | 2fe5163ec30e30d5b8b875d34efb4d722dc340a1 (diff) | |
Add note to README.developer about not passing NULL to %s format strings.
Part of wireshark-dev conversation starting with:
http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201208/msg00125.html
svn path=/trunk/; revision=44548
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 1bbc52a8c7..2d64958535 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -456,6 +456,10 @@ we do not want any new callers of these functions. Instead use g_snprintf() since that function will if used correctly prevent buffer overflows for large strings. +Be sure that all pointers passed to %s specifiers in format strings are non- +NULL. Some implementations will automatically replace NULL pointers with the +string "(NULL)", but most will not. + When using a buffer to create a string, do not use a buffer stored on the stack. I.e. do not use a buffer declared as |