Re: [NASL2] Metaphysical question on null values

Michel Arboi <[email protected]> 20 Feb 2003 21:02:08 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Organization	Compilo ergo sum
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Pavel Kankovsky" <[email protected]> writes:

> IMHO, any use of an undefined value (unless explicitly allowed) is a
> very good reason (at least) to print a warning--no sane program should
> ever do such a thing.

This happens with  -DNASL_DEBUG=1
Unfortunately, function arguments are implemented as local variables,
and when a function tries to read an optional argument, you get a
warning.

> 1. the program is terminated

Easy to implement (once we fix the argument problem), but rather
dirty IMHO.