Memory leak in vsnprintf

[Christopher Faylor]

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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