From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 18:32:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git segfaults on older Solaris releases
Message-ID: <xmqqoa9lz2uw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5706A489.7070101@jupiterrise.com>

"Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com> writes:

> The reason for the crash is simple, a null value was passed to the 's'
> format for the *printf family of functions.
> ...
> Passing a null value to the 's' format is explicitly documented as
> giving undefined results on Solaris, even on Solaris 11(2).

Do you mean

	*printf("...%.*s...", ..., 0, NULL, ...)

i.e. you saw a NULL passed only when we use %.*s with width=0?