glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 13:27:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-07 12:06:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 22:44:17 +0100, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > > > If I read a stream of data (from a file, a network socket, etc.)
> > > > > which is supposed to contain valid floating-point data, it is
> > > > > reasonable for a program to print it.  Especially so if the printing
> > > > > I am doing is a
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> read what i said again ... the clients are doing write()/read() on the double 
> directly, but one side has debugging enabled so it additionally does printf() 
> on the values coming across -> bam, server crashes

So it didn't check its input prior using it.

MfG, JBG

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