Better handling of printing NULL pointers

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/src/string.c b/src/src/string.c
index 3857e1120..f3bf34315 100644
--- a/src/src/string.c
+++ b/src/src/string.c
@@ -1366,13 +1366,13 @@ while (*fp != 0)
       {
       void * ptr;
       if (p >= last - 24) { yield = FALSE; goto END_FORMAT; }
-      /* sprintf() saying "(nil)" for a null pointer doesn't work
-      on FreeBSD; we get "0xAAAAAAAA".  Handle it explicitly. */
+      /* sprintf() saying "(nil)" for a null pointer seems unreliable.
+      Handle it explicitly. */
       if ((ptr = va_arg(ap, void *)))
 	{
 	strncpy(newformat, item_start, fp - item_start);
 	newformat[fp - item_start] = 0;
-	p += sprintf(CS p, newformat, va_arg(ap, void *));
+	p += sprintf(CS p, newformat, ptr);
 	}
       else
 	p += sprintf(CS p, "(nil)");