From c2c3a46e3e69afb6f34410b89919b2e5c18ce1c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Tse <yangsita@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:49:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Attempt to silence bogus compiler warning: "Potential null
 pointer dereference through ptr is detected"

---
 src/writeout.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/writeout.c b/src/writeout.c
index 14ba41b92..9aab77184 100644
--- a/src/writeout.c
+++ b/src/writeout.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void ourWriteOut(CURL *curl, const char *writeinfo)
   long longinfo;
   double doubleinfo;
 
-  while(*ptr) {
+  while(ptr && *ptr) {
     if('%' == *ptr) {
       if('%' == ptr[1]) {
         /* an escaped %-letter */