asprintf() issue

[Archie Cobbs]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I think we should do the following:
>>
>> (a) Rewrite the man page to say we set the pointer to NULL on error.
>>     Document that this behaviour changed in glibc 2.22.
>>
>> (b) Add a versioned function to support old binaries, and have the
>>     new implementation set the pointer to NULL on error.
>>
>> Then we're done and move on to the next problem.
>
> If that's the emerging consensus, it's something with which I can agree.

What are the next steps on this asprintf() issue?

I'd like to get it resolved, though unfortunately I'm not familiar
enough to implement (b) myself.

Thanks,
-Archie

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Archie L. Cobbs