From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1175 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: musl bugs found through gnulib Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:26:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20120618152630.GU17860@port70.net> References: <20120609230541.47eac2de@newbook> <4FD55156.7050302@cs.ucla.edu> <20120611182202.1ee4d019@newbook> <12545931.v3ALTEUUx8@linuix> <20120617235426.GX163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120618082100.GT17860@port70.net> <4FDF26D8.6050309@barfooze.de> <20120618145545.GC163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340033210 3614 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2012 15:26:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:26:50 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1176-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jun 18 17:26:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sgdqm-0008Eo-7d for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:26:44 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23782 invoked by uid 550); 18 Jun 2012 15:26:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 23774 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2012 15:26:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120618145545.GC163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1175 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [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..