Re: Looking for someone with MinGW

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Looking for someone with MinGW
Date: 2008-12-17 03:26:32
Message-ID: 87tz93mqhj.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> Hi, I found the cause.
>> ...
>> Actual error occurs in vfprintf() because act->name can be NULL.
>> sprintf(..., "%s", NULL) could work on some platform (the result is '(null)'),
>> but it crashes on Windows (msvcrt). We need to avoid passing NULLs as
>> arguments to "%s" format for printf families.
>
> Hmm, Windows is hardly the only platform where that would crash.
> I'm surprised we don't have more buildfarm members complaining about
> this.

Actually I thought the behaviour of spitting out "(null)" was unique to glibc.

Don't we have plenty of BSD and other implementations?

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