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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: kern/43599: Balloc did not check mallocated pointer in 
 libc/stdlib/strtod.c
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The following reply was made to PR kern/43599; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Jin Guojun [DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/43599: Balloc did not check mallocated pointer in 
 libc/stdlib/strtod.c
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:15:01 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:04:09 -0700, "Jin Guojun [DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> said:
 
 > and timeout (SIGALARM) starts another printf() which causes overtaking the
 > malloc() and returns 0 (NULL):
 
 Programmer error.  It is forbidden to call any stdio function from a
 signal handler.
 
 -GAWollman
 

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