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Re: AWeb and GIF datatypes

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From: Osma Ahvenlampi
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 16:05
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In article <ehb.053m@draco.prima.ruhr.de> ehb@draco.prima.ruhr.de (Edwin H. Bielawski) writes:
>I have a DraCo. This machine has no CHIP RAM! All illegal accesses
>depends on an unitializised pointer like strlen(NULL) creates an
>alert! I can switch this of, but i want to see wrong programs.

Enforcer is the standard Amiga debugging tool, and warns about reads
to the NULL address as well as a lot of other things. I run it all the
time.

>There are more dangerous accesses in AWeb as strlen(NULL). I wrote
>the author two mails including Hunk and Offset of the hit, but i've
>got no answer (only the Return-Receipt:-Mail). :(

..And AWeb has never had a SINGLE Enforcer hit on my machine, read
from NULL or anything else. I have hits a couple of times quitting it,
but that was always because of the alpha CyberGraphX picture.datatype.

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Subject: Re: AWeb and GIF datatypes
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