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List:       nessus-devel
Subject:    [Nessus-devel] FAKE_CELL
From:       Michel Arboi <mikhail () nessus ! org>
Date:       2005-01-30 12:20:45
Message-ID: m3r7k3kt0i.fsf () nessus ! org
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Internally, the NASL interpretor uses two C values to return nothing
in NASL: NULL (= (void*)0) when there is an error, and FAKE_CELL (=
(void*) 1) when everything is OK.

The behaviour of the interpretor changes if it is compiled with
STOP_AT_FIRST_ERROR but this was never used, and will probably never
be.
I suggest that FAKE_CELL is removed, as it is useless and error prone
(you have to test c == NULL || c == FAKE_CELL before derefencing the
pointer, otherwise SEGV is the punishment).

Has the defense anything to say to save the life of this constant?
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