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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