[Ecls-list] FFI and null C strings

[Goffioul Michael]

Hi,

I found an annoying problem while fixing FFI issues. This is related
to null C strings. One example is for example:

(ffi:def-function ("getenv" c-getenv)
  ((name :cstring))
  :returning cstring)

If the variable doesn't exist, "getenv" returns NULL. However, the
generated C code convert the returned value to a LISP string using
make_string_copy, which doesn't support NULL as input argument.
Would it be OK to change make_string_copy such that it returns NIL
when the input is NULL?

Michael.