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Message-ID: <2880353.4bDTyI3WGR@linuix>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:35:28 +0200
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@...sp.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
Cc: bug-gnulib@....org, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl, printf out-of-memory test
Rich Felker wrote:
> The problem was an obscure pointer-arithmetic overflow ...
> where the stack pointer is near the 4GB boundary.
This explains also why it occurred only with a certain probability
outside gdb, but with 100% probability from within gdb: Apparently gdb
runs the program without address space layout randomization.
> Anyway, it's fixed now.
I confirm that
http://git.etalabs.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=musl;a=commitdiff;h=914949d321448bd2189bdcbce794dbae2c8ed16e
fixes the bug.
Bruno
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