Hi, When glibc gets a null pointer in one of the printf-family of functions for a %s argument, it prints "(null)" and doesn't crash. All of the *BSD's libc's also print "(null)".
Gnulib, when using its own vasnprintf implementation, does crash. The principal offender is Solaris, for which a) this would normally crash their in libc, and b) downstream gnulib consumers prefer to use gnulib rather than the Solaris printf's on Solaris anyways. I believe that Gnulib should mimic the Linux and *BSD way of handling null %s args without crashing. This patch, submitted to Glib last May, appears to correct this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-May/msg00031.html Thanks, Aaron
