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[Bug libc/12518] memcpy acts randomly (and differently) with overlapping areas


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518

--- Comment #27 from Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail dot com> 2011-05-04 15:01:05 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> (In reply to comment #25)
> > So, again, I think we need at least a transition period so that people can
> > detect and fix the issues.
> 
> But it may be difficult to detect the issues. For instance, zsh was affected by
> a similar problem (now fixed in CVS only) with the optimized strcpy, but to
> detect the problem, it involves keyboard input:

Yes, it is difficult, that's why I think it should be enabled globally.

BTW. Here's another issue on zsh I found while enabling the memcpy checks:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698439

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