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Re: diversion failure [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12]
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Eric Blake |
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Re: diversion failure [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12] |
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:57:53 -0600 |
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[re-adding gnulib]
According to Alain Guibert on 8/11/2008 3:16 PM:
| Hello Eric, thanks for your support,
|
| On Monday, August 11, 2008 at 7:00:34 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
|
|> platforms where fopen(file,"a+") opened at the end instead of the
|> beginning of the file
|
| Libc5 fopen(a+)s at the end of file, according to fopen(2) manpage, and
| confirmed by a quick test run.
Useful to know, and thankfully means that fopen was probably not the cause
of your bug.
|
| Running "/tmp/m4-1.4.11.34-9ecd/src/m4 in.m4" segfaults in vfprintf(),
| unless the in.m4 %d number is reduced below 1020.
The real problem thus seems to be that the gnulib xvasprintf-posix module
is not working around this bug in your *printf family of functions. Could
you post config.log for more details on what ./configure determined about
printf?
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- Re: os/2 c-stack [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12], (continued)
Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12, Tom G. Christensen, 2008/08/09
- Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12, Eric Blake, 2008/08/13
- Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12, Tom G. Christensen, 2008/08/13
- sa_sigaction [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12], Eric Blake, 2008/08/13
- Re: sa_sigaction [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12], Tom G. Christensen, 2008/08/14
- Re: sa_sigaction [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12], Eric Blake, 2008/08/16
- Re: sa_sigaction [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12], Eric Blake, 2008/08/17
Re: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12, Rick Genter, 2008/08/12