Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Unusual column.c problem

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:09:00 -0800
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:41:47AM -0500, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> Some g_assert() calls here and in other column-related functions
> would not be a bad idea.

Those calls would replace the SIGSEGV with a SIGABRT.

If the goal is to have it exit "cleanly" in that situation, that
wouldn't help.

However, I don't think it *should* exit "cleanly" in that situation, as
per my other mail; if "clp" is null, it either means that some data
structure internal to {Ethereal, Tethereal, Cethereal, ...} is
corrupted, or some routine is passing a bad value to
"get_column_format()" for some other reason, and it should die messily,
so that

	1) it's clear that there's a bug and it needs to be fixed

and

	2) there's probably going to be a core dump, which could make it
	   easier to track down the problem.