Re: [PATCHES] mcxt.c

Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:53:06PM +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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>>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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>>>The particular assertion that was proposed doesn't strike me as terribly 
>>>useful - It should be checked at the point of call rather than inside 
>>>pstrdup, I should have thought.
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>>Are you going to trust the client of that function ? 
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>Yes, because it can only used in backend code and C functions, which
>can be written only by a trusted user ('cause C is an untrusted language).
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>(I might be wrong...)
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Besides that, trust isn't the issue, but rather what useful information 
can be gathered. How useful is it to know "someone called pstrdup() with 
a null pointer"? Not very, IMNSHO.

cheers

andrew