overflow in vprintf()

[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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