carllp@sleipner.diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) (12/19/88)
edward@vangogh.sybase.com (Ed Hirgelt) writes: >I've been using slocal for several months with 6.5. I made one change to >sbr/getcpy.c to avoid dereferencing the null pointer. The code now looks >like: [src deleted] The code in mh6.6 is better: /* getcpy.c - copy a string in managed memory */ #include "../h/mh.h" #include <stdio.h> char *getcpy (str) register char *str; { register char *cp; if (!str) { if ((cp = malloc ((unsigned) (1))) == NULL) adios (NULLCP, "unable to allocate string storage"); (void) strcpy (cp, ""); } else { if ((cp = malloc ((unsigned) (strlen (str) + 1))) == NULL) adios (NULLCP, "unable to allocate string storage"); (void) strcpy (cp, str); } return cp; }