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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au
Subject: Re: bin/4403: vasprintf (3) corrupts memory
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> > I'll think about adding a hack to libiberty, forcing it to use the FSF
> > version of vasprintf on any freebsd-2.[12].* machine.
> 
> Be careful.. If it's the version I'm thinking of, I wouldn't be so quick 
> to do this.  One version I've seen around scans for % fields in the string 
> to estimate the size and does a malloc and vsprintf.  This scares the hell 
> out of me...

That version (the one in gdb-4.16) dumps core for %% in the string.

Bruce