Re: gethostbyname call with 0 length arg

[James Hawkins]

On 2/8/06, Detlef Riekenberg <wine.dev(a)web.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 03.02.2006, 19:23 +0100 schrieb Christer Palm:
> > > if((!name) && (name[0])) {
> > > Do you really mean that?
> > > "if name is 0, then dereference name"?
> > > No. the code is:
>
> "if name is not NULL, then dereference name"

Consider the case when name is NULL:

!name = TRUE

if (TRUE && name[0])

So the only time you'll dereference name is when name is NULL.  It should read:

if (name && name[0])

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James Hawkins