Re: [RP] Debian Bug#112770

[shawn]

Gergely Nagy <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!
> 
> Could anyone have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/112770 ? I could
> reproduce the bug on a PowerMac 4400, it seems to barf in
> marked_message_printf, the nchars = vsnprintf (..) stuff seems to
> return -1, or something. I didn't debug it too much, due to lack of
> time.

,----[ From the GNU Libc manual ]
| *Attention:* In versions of the GNU C library prior to 2.1 the
| return value is the number of characters stored, not including the
| terminating null; unless there was not enough space in S to store
| the result in which case `-1' is returned.  This was changed in
| order to comply with the ISO C99 standard.
`----

I've patched bar.c to handle a -1 (I think) but since my libc doesn't
ever return -1, I couldn't really test it. Get Mr. guy to test it out
of CVS.