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[Bug stdio/20200] dprintf unconditionally calls malloc
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:27:23 +0000
- Subject: [Bug stdio/20200] dprintf unconditionally calls malloc
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- References: <bug-20200-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20200
--- Comment #2 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #1)
> Note that dprintf need not be AS-safe, POSIX doesn't mandate it, and we
> don't document any safety standard for it in the glibc manual, nor in the
> linux man pages project. The original author of the interface (Roland
> McGrath) has stated that he intended it to be AS-safe, but we don't know if
> that's even possible today.
>
> I don't quite understand why this is filed as a distinct bug from bug 16060?
It's a regression in 2.23. It's fix probably will not address the other issues
in bug 16060.
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