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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

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