Re: buggy vfprintf makes printf(1) segfault on freebsd 5.0

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> This is probably worth working around.
> Maybe it's done already, but currently I've turned
> off printf-posix in coreutils:
> 
>   freebsd$ ./printf %.2147483647f 1
>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Before working around it in gnulib:

- Will you turn on some *printf-posix in coreutils again? (If not, it
  buys coreutils nothing if gnulib works around it.)

- Does it also occur if you include printf-posix in coreutils? (If not,
  there's nothing to do.)

- Can you reduce the testcase to a smaller width value? I would not want
  to include a test that produces 2 GB of output; even when piped to
  /dev/null, it will likely take several seconds, which is too much for a
  configure test.

I don't have access to FreeBSD 5.0 machines.

Bruno