Re: diversion failure [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12]

[Eric Blake]

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According to Alain Guibert on 8/19/2008 4:40 AM:
> Sure. There is a segfault on the test for large precisions, on
> "%.4000d". On libc5 this format works well until "%.1020d", but
> segfaults for "%.1021d" and above.

Bruno, this looks like a vasnprintf bug, since configure accurately
determined that:

> | checking whether printf supports large precisions... no

I'm not sure where to look in vasnprintf to try fixing this, although it
seems like it might be as simple as using NEED_PRINTF_UNBOUNDED_PRECISION
in more places.  Do you have suggestions?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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