[Toybox] A couple of minor fixes

[Rob Landley]

On 06/13/2016 09:49 AM, enh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Mike Moreton
> <Mike.Moreton at frontier-silicon.com> wrote:
>>> have you reported this bug to your supplier?
>>>
>>> have you experimented to work out what they largest value they _can_ cope with is? does your version work with
>>> INT_MAX? (maybe your supplier backported the "fix" that's introduced a new bug?)
>>
>> With the greatest of respect (genuinely), I think this is slightly missing the point - there are many ways I can fix this problem for us, so it's no great problem for us.
> 
> knowing what values this particular broken glibc can cope with (since
> it's apparently different to the two other broken glibcs we've already
> seen --- the existing hack was chosen to work on both of those, plus
> non-broken c libraries) is a prerequisite to working around the bug...

It's a moving target.

Rob