[Bug libfortran/33079] Optional empty strings do not appear to be 'PRESENT'

[fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #3 from fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-08-15 14:22 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Why do you need to special case len == 0?  The other strings aren't NUL
> terminated either.

The zero-termination is just a detail to avoid keeping memory uninitialized.
The thing is that *dest should not be NULL, and malloc(0) will return NULL.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33079