[vlc-devel] [PATCH] playlist service discovery NULL pointer dereference

Pierre d'Herbemont pdherbemont at free.fr
Tue Aug 21 19:21:12 CEST 2007


On 21 août 07, at 18:59, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

>>> Usually such crash are not hard to resolve, unless they
>>> hide a much bigger trouble.
>>
>> Yes, but a "clean" crash with an assertion failure is still a bit
>> better than getting a plain segmentation violation.
>
> Well yes, but hardly better. A clean segfault is fine (such as  
> *NULL) as
> it is relatively easy to debug.

And generally give a nice message box with the debug back trace, but  
again that depends on the system you use ;)

Pierre.
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