gh-96678: Fix UB of null pointer arithmetic (GH-96782)

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python · Sep 13, 2022 · 81e36f3 · 81e36f3
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-09-13-12-06-46.gh-issue-96678.NqGFyb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-09-13-12-06-46.gh-issue-96678.NqGFyb.rst
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+Fix undefined behaviour in C code of null pointer arithmetic.
diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ tok_get(struct tok_state *tok, const char **p_start, const char **p_end)
     } while (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\014');
 
     /* Set start of current token */
-    tok->start = tok->cur - 1;
+    tok->start = tok->cur == NULL ? NULL : tok->cur - 1;
 
     /* Skip comment, unless it's a type comment */
     if (c == '#') {