numeric.c: Fix possible null pointer dereferences

Previous code apparently dereferences a variable initialized to NULL.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/numeric.c b/numeric.c
index de64ab479d..a9f70622de 100644
--- a/numeric.c
+++ b/numeric.c
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ Perl_my_strtod(const char * const s, char **e)
 
     {
         NV result;
-        char ** end_ptr = NULL;
+        char * end_ptr;
 
-        *end_ptr = my_atof2(s, &result);
+        end_ptr = my_atof2(s, &result);
         if (e) {
-            *e = *end_ptr;
+            *e = end_ptr;
         }
 
-        if (! *end_ptr) {
+        if (! end_ptr) {
             result = 0.0;
         }