Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 17504: /trunk/gtk/: main.c

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:31:03 +0100
Gerald Combs wrote:

It was ostensibly to validate the input of a function.  In reality it
fixed a problem Coverity wasn't complaining about.  The real problem was
that it may have been possible to pass a NULL value to
get_interface_descriptive_name().  Fixed in r17513.

That sounds much better :-)
However, some recent "coverity problem fixes" sounded to me fixing similiar problems the "same way" ...
Reminds me of compiler warnings going away with a cast, without understanding the problem behind it ... 

Regards, ULFL