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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ctags: avoid null deref
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:55:23 +0000
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Luc, thank you for addressing this issue so quickly!

On Tue,  2 Jan 2018 16:11:16 +0100
Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Protect the dereference of null base_type.

I wonder, maybe it would be better not to add this protection so future similar bugs can be found ?