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Re: overflow in vprintf()
- To: elleron at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: overflow in vprintf()
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Nov 2000 15:35:54 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200010302258.e9UMw9t11252@virgil.chaos.net>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
elleron@yahoo.com writes:
> vfprintf() will apparantly overflow and eventually seg fault
> when provided with long string subsitutions. ie, conversions such as
> "%s" with a string 10k and longer seem to drop core reguarly.
I cannot reproduce this at all. I've added a test to the glibc test
suite to check the handling of long strings in different locales and
different situations and haven't found any problem.
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