Re: gdb/libiberty/vasprintf.c

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From: Andrew Cagney
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:19

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FYI,

Liberty patches can be sent to gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org.  GDB is just 
a client.  For GDB, see http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/mailing-lists/

Thanks for finding this,
Andrew


> Hi.
> 
> I found a bug in gdb/libiberty/vasprintf.c.  Well, actually a
> SIGSEGV found it for me.  One of the kernel developers here at 
> QNX provided me with the explanation for the fix, which I have
> appended.
> 
> Here is the change I made to fix it for me.  In vasprintf() I 
> have added 2 lines before the return, and changed the va_list
> parameter being passed to int_vasprintf():
> 
> 
>   int
>   vasprintf (result, format, args)
>        char **result;
>        const char *format;
>   #if defined (_BSD_VA_LIST_) && defined (__FreeBSD__)
>        _BSD_VA_LIST_ args;
>   #else
>        va_list args;
>   #endif
>   {
>     /* Handle both array and non-array va_list types. */
>     va_list temp;
>     va_copy(temp, args);
>     return int_vasprintf (result, format, &temp);
>   }
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Graeme Peterson
> QNX Tools Group
> 
>

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