[PATCH] Fix addseverity

[Ulrich Drepper]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> if the string passed to addseverity is freed by the caller,
> we still reference freed up memory, or if the string passed to addseverity
> is overwritten, we use whatever it was overwritten to.

I've never seen anything to the contrary that this is acceptable.  The 
function is not part of any spec and when I wrote this code this seemed 
to be what other implementations did.  What program has problems with 
the current code?

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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