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Re: vasnprintf fix


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: vasnprintf fix
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:21:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes:

> Now that you say it, it's obvious what is going on: the code has first
> decided that it doesn't need the 'a'/'A' substitute (since Cygwin already
> has it) and then decided that it needs to emulate 'A'/'A' (because Cygwin
> either crashes in low-memory situations or has a crippled handling of the
> precision).

For clarification:

cygwin 1.5.24 can (probably) crash on low memory situations (I have not tried 
to provoke such failures, and ulimit doesn't work on cygwin, so it would 
involve a gdb session to fake out malloc/errno).  I say this, because I have 
fixed some memory handling bugs that were in newlib at the time cygwin 1.5.24 
was released.  Furthermore, cygwin 1.5.24 does not support 'a'/'A'.

My bug report was with CVS cygwin (which will become 1.7.0); there, I have 
added 'a'/'A' support, and hopefully plugged all the bad memory cases.  And I 
can certainly vouch for my handling of arbitrary precision with the 'a'/'A' 
code.  But since ulimit does not work on cygwin, the configure check 
pessimistically guesses no (and that is the correct guess as long as cygwin 
1.7.0 is unreleased).

> 
> Thanks for the single-stepping. I'm committing this, which will hopefully
> fix it (untested).

I'll give it a spin.  Assume success unless I send a followup mail.

-- 
Eric Blake







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