From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: musl bugs found through gnulib
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120618152630.GU17860@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120618145545.GC163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
* Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2012-06-18 10:55:45 -0400]:
> > there's only one broken program out there, which is gnu coreutils' "od".
> > if someone wants to use coreutils and cares about this uncommon
> > issue, he/she can simply use a patch for this specific program.
>
> The problem is that gnulib is potentially replacing printf in many
> programs (I haven't checked this; would you care to check?) over this
> stupid issue that only affects one broken program, resulting in
> massive bloat for users, and potentially breaking things.
>
hm, what's the issue with od?
is it about printing random binary data as long double?
if od invokes undefined behaviour then it's a coreutils bug
it sounds bad that based on a broken test gnulib may replace
a correct printf implementation with its own broken one
just to make a broken coreutils tool to work so now we
need a libc workaround for this issue..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20120609230541.47eac2de@newbook>
[not found] ` <4FD55156.7050302@cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <20120611182202.1ee4d019@newbook>
2012-06-17 22:49 ` Bruno Haible
2012-06-17 23:54 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-18 8:21 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-18 13:02 ` John Spencer
2012-06-18 14:55 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-18 15:26 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2012-06-18 16:00 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-19 13:26 ` John Spencer
2012-06-18 0:16 ` [musl] " idunham
2012-06-19 0:11 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-19 2:07 ` [musl] " Eric Blake
2012-06-19 2:52 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-19 11:03 ` musl, fdopen test Bruno Haible
2012-06-19 11:09 ` Jim Meyering
2012-06-20 20:52 ` Bruno Haible
2012-06-19 10:45 ` musl, printf out-of-memory test Bruno Haible
2012-06-19 19:16 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-19 20:04 ` Bruno Haible
2012-06-19 20:08 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-19 21:17 ` Bruno Haible
2012-06-20 1:52 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-20 7:30 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-20 9:35 ` Bruno Haible
2012-06-20 11:00 ` Jim Meyering
2012-06-21 19:58 ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-20 3:04 ` Re: musl bugs found through gnulib Rich Felker
2012-06-20 4:10 ` [musl] " Eric Blake
2012-06-20 13:27 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-20 7:32 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-22 10:39 ` grantpt test Bruno Haible
2012-07-02 22:33 ` [musl] Re: musl bugs found through gnulib Pádraig Brady
2012-06-20 19:28 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-21 2:21 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-21 8:52 ` [musl] " Paul Eggert
2012-06-18 0:05 idunham
2012-06-18 0:29 ` Rich Felker
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