Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 04:21:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au Subject: Re: bin/4403: vasprintf (3) corrupts memory Message-ID: <199709011821.EAA10590@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> > I'll think about adding a hack to libiberty, forcing it to use the FSF > > version of vasprintf on any freebsd-2.[12].* machine. > > Be careful.. If it's the version I'm thinking of, I wouldn't be so quick > to do this. One version I've seen around scans for % fields in the string > to estimate the size and does a malloc and vsprintf. This scares the hell > out of me... That version (the one in gdb-4.16) dumps core for %% in the string. Bruce
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