Re: NSString initWithUTF8String:...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, February 11, 2001, at 03:28 PM, Manuel Guesdon wrote:

> NSString initWithUTF8String: fail with NULL parameter 
> What does OpenStep/NextStep/MacOSX for this case ? Does it consider it's a 
> zero length 
> string, does it raise an exception 
> or does it crash in strlen,... calls ? 
>  
> I think we should at least raise an exception in this case (?) 

I don't know what MacOS does, but my preference is for tolerance ... it should 
treat it
as a zero length string (and perhaps log a warning if compiled for debug - it's 
what NSDebugMLog() is for).

I'll do that unless you want to.