pic might deref a null pointer

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1 total messages Started by root Sun, 03 Nov 1985 22:38

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Author: root
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1985 22:38

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There appears to be a (day 1?) error in portability for pic (supplied
in the ditroff distribution).

When parsing attributes with no text, pic's yacc input says, ``No text,
use a null pointer'' instead of ``No text, use a pointer to the null string''.
OOPS.

Look in picy.y for textattr appearing OUTSIDE of the attrlist
stuff.  It calls the function to make an attribute with a 0.
Change it to make the attribute with "".

I've run this for a while and it sure fixed a big problem
with dereferencing null pointers.

					Rob

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