MT-safe annotations for gcvt and related functions
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Dec 12 11:00:00 GMT 2014
gcvt is declared in the manual as:
@deftypefun {char *} gcvt (double @var{value}, int @var{ndigit}, char
*@var{buf})
@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
I think that's incorrect because it's implemented in terms of
(locale-dependent, not async-safe etc.) sprintf. The preprocessor logic
in is a bit difficult to follow, but some of the gcvt-related functions
even call malloc directly.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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