On 3/10/99 3:13 AM, Acido (acido@dvmud.net) stated:
>Uhm so i get the idea it's a pretty bad thing if it dosn't crash in most
>cases.
>So how do i make sure that it DO crash and dump core acordingly??
>
>After reading this thread i was about to make a NULL check but i'm having
>second throughts about this after reading this post (we all know dak is
>always right all the time hehe :)
You could do both - dump a core, log a message, and stay up:
if (!str) {
log("Null string passed to str_dup.");
if (!fork())
raise(SIGSEGV);
}
or could use abort(); instead of raise().
- Chris Jacobson
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