Re: *alloc-gnu on glibc

[Pádraig Brady]

On 15/05/2021 16:49, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> > On glibc-2.31-5.fc32.x86_64 I'm seeing this test failure with coreutils,
> > since the tests are now checking for a specific errno.
> > I just checked a later Fedora 34 system which has the same issue.
>
> For me, a testdir created through
>
>     ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../testdir --single-configure \
>                    malloc-gnu realloc-gnu calloc-gnu reallocarray
>
> passes all tests on Fedora 32 (glibc 2.31) and Fedora 33 (glibc 2.32).

Oh. Ah this issue is restricted to glibc's MALLOC_CHECK_ implementation.
The attached avoids this part of the test if it's being used.
I've reported the glibc bug at:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27870

With this applied, your command above passes all tests.

cheers,
Pádraig

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