Re: [musl] Invalid read of nl_arg in printf_core()

["Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>]

Excerpts from Szabolcs Nagy's message of November 5, 2022 6:09 am:
> * Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> [2022-11-03 20:42:16 +0100]:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> reading some code today, I noticed undefined behavior in printf_core().
>> vfprintf() creates an array called nl_arg automatically and does not
>> initialize it. That is fine, but it means that reads from each array
>> member are undefined behavior until that member gets assigned a value.
> 
> an automatic storage object that was not initialized has indeterminate
> value, so accessing it is not undefined behaviour. (unless the object
> could have been declared with the register storage class)
> 
> so technically the code is correct (if int has no trap representations)
> but i think the fix still makes sense: leaving unspecified values around
> is error prone.

N1570 J.2 [Undefined behavior]:

1   The behavior is undefined in the following circumstances:
[ ... ]
— The value of an object with automatic storage duration is used while it is
  indeterminate (6.2.4, 6.7.9, 6.8).