RE: [PATCH] Octstr function call sometime barf when called with NULL data

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 6:38 PM
> To: Oded Arbel
> Cc: Kannel-devel (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Octstr function call sometime barf when 
> called with NULL data
> 
> 
> > While some Octstr functions handle NULLs gracefully, others 
> (especially the formating ones) do not behave so 
> gentlemen-like. this patch will cause NULLs received instead 
> of Octstr* in some cases not to panic the box but instead be 
> handled in a predictable manner.
> 
> again -1 for this, sorry Oded.
> 
> The <NULL> returns are very dangerious for functions that deal with
> XML output and hence you dump a null'ed Octstr as "<NULL>" cstr which
> oviously will break XML structures and semantics.

Ok - you are correct here too :-). how about using (NULL) or [NULL] instead ?

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