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Message-ID: <20120618152630.GU17860@port70.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:26:32 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: musl bugs found through gnulib
* Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.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..
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