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Re: Memory leak in vsnprintf
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:43:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: Memory leak in vsnprintf
- References: <44187B91.3070801@usa.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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