[Toybox] A couple of minor fixes

Paul Barker paul at paulbarker.me.uk
Sun Jun 5 11:34:34 PDT 2016


On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 12:41:43 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 06/05/2016 06:45 AM, Paul Barker wrote:
> > * grep didn't print any output due to printf choking on a field
> > width of INT_MAX/2.
> 
> Wait, what? We cut it _down_ to INT_MAX/2 because glibc's printf
> started choking on a field with of INT_MAX sometime after Ubuntu
> 12.04 (where it worked just fine):
> 
> commit 93e27d0d4723d57082463c4d70e6443060a8732b
> Author: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
> Date:   Wed Feb 10 16:23:31 2016 -0600
> 
>     Although printf("%.*s", INT_MAX, s) works fine on ubuntu 12.04,
>     it broke since.
> 
> Now it can't handle the _smaller_ value? What libc version has this
> new bug?
> 

I saw this in the git history and did start to wonder what keeps
changing. I haven't really had much time to look into it though, I've
just gone for a fix which never assumes that printf can handle a
particular large field width.

OpenEmbedded master branch is currently using glibc 2.24 plus a bunch
of patches. I'm building for a 32-bit system if that makes a difference.

Thanks,
Paul Barker


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