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Date: | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:43:57 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Memory leak in vsnprintf |
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:39:45PM -0600, Paul Mattes wrote: >I believe I have found a memory leak in the Cygwin version of >vsnprintf(). If it is called with a NULL 'str' parameter and a 0 >'length', it leaks a BUFSIZ-sized buffer. (Per C99 and SUSv3, calling >vsnprintf() with a NULL 'str' and 0 'length' is a way to find out how >big the formatted string would be without actually storing it anywhere.) > >I see that Cygwin's vsnprintf() comes from newlib. Should I report this >to them instead? Yes. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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