[geos-devel] getCentroid on empty collection

strk at refractions.net strk at refractions.net
Thu Dec 30 08:27:56 EST 2004


On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:21:17PM +0100, strk at refractions.net wrote:
> Calling getCeontrid on an EMPTY GEOMETRY currently returns
> NULL, should it return EMPTY GEOMETRY again instead ?

mm.. The signature does not allow this.
I've just corrected a memory fault happening inside getCentroid()
for those cases and handled NULL returns from XMLTester.cpp.
There are probably other places in where to look for "dangerous"
use of getCeontrid() returns.

--strk;

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