Re: [BUG/PATCH] backend crashes during authentication if

Hi,

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Hm, Solaris' bsearch() fails on empty input? How bizarre.
>
> I was skeptical but apparently this is a known bug ...
> googling turned up a couple of references, eg
> http://www.opencm.org/pipermail/opencm-dev/2002-July/001077.html

in defense of Solaris' bsearch it should be said that it only breaks if
one passes NULL as the array base, a decidedly undefined (and unfriendly)
case. Passing an array with zero elements works as advertised. Btw, the
same happens on IRIX.

Best wishes, Mike

PS: A little program to demonstrate this: array with elements, empty
array, NULL pointer as base:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

char strings[][4] = { "abc", "efg", "hij", "klm" };

typedef int (*cmp_t)(const void*, const void*);

int main(int argc, char**argv) {
char *s, *term = "hij";

s = bsearch(term, strings, sizeof(strings)/sizeof(char[4]),
sizeof(char*), (cmp_t) strcmp);
fprintf(stderr, "1: %s\n", (s != NULL) ? s : "<not found>");

s = bsearch(term, strings, 0, sizeof(char*), (cmp_t) strcmp);
fprintf(stderr, "2: %s\n", (s != NULL) ? s : "<not found>");

s = bsearch(term, NULL, 0, sizeof(char*), (cmp_t) strcmp);
fprintf(stderr, "3: %s\n", (s != NULL) ? s : "<not found>");

return 0;
}

Results:

$ ./a.out # Solaris 9
1: hij
2: <not found>
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

$ ./a.out # IRIX 6.5
1: hij
2: <not found>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

$ ./a.out # Linux with glibc 2.2.5
1: hij
2: <not found>
3: <not found>

$ ./a.out # OpenBSD 3.2
1: hij
2: <not found>
3: <not found>

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