From b15a2ae9fc3effa10708d0ed90e92f581a6e2d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rose <david@ddrose.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:48:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix gcc 3.2 crash

---
 panda/src/express/datagram.I | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/panda/src/express/datagram.I b/panda/src/express/datagram.I
index 7102a83bf6..575ef1247e 100644
--- a/panda/src/express/datagram.I
+++ b/panda/src/express/datagram.I
@@ -366,7 +366,12 @@ append_data(const string &data) {
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 INLINE string Datagram::
 get_message() const {
-  return string((const char *)_data.p(), _data.size());
+  // Silly special case for gcc 3.2, which can't tolerate string(NULL, 0).
+  if (_data.size() == 0) {
+    return string();
+  } else {
+    return string((const char *)_data.p(), _data.size());
+  }
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////