On 02/09/2019 08:04, Chris Johns wrote:
On 2/9/19 3:58 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
Hello,

the

const char *rtems_version_control_key( void )
{
#ifdef RTEMS_VERSION_VC_KEY
   return RTEMS_VERSION_VC_KEY;
#else
   return NULL;
#endif
}

returns NULL, if no RTEMS_VERSION_VC_KEY is defined, e.g. the RTEMS sources are
not managed by Git. Naive users like me may produce a NULL pointer if they use
it like this printf("version: %s", rtems_version_control_key()). Should we
change this function to return "" instead of NULL?

"NO-VERSION-VC-KEY" ?

I would keep it simple, e.g. strlen(rtems_version_control_key()) == 0 means, no version control key.

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