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Re: vfprintf with positional arg and 'h' flag


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 04:36, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> This fixes the use of the 'h' flag together with positional arguments,
> giving wrong output on big-endian, and reading uninitialized memory on
> little-endian.

Thanks, I've applied the patch.  But reading uninitialized memory is no
bug.  Using it would be.  We are reading uninitialized memory in
numerous places.  Just to make this clear, there won't be any changes
because of this.

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