vfprintf with positional arg and 'h' flag

Thu Mar 14 02:15:00 GMT 2002

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 04:36, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> > This fixes the use of the 'h' flag together with positional arguments,
|> > giving wrong output on big-endian, and reading uninitialized memory on
|> > little-endian.
|> 
|> Thanks, I've applied the patch.  But reading uninitialized memory is no
|> bug.  Using it would be.

It had used it.  You were able to get useless numbers even on
little-endian.

Andreas.

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