$NetBSD: patch-lib_vasnprintf.c,v 1.1 2015/04/12 07:43:42 dsainty Exp $ Avoid CVS crashing on systems using _FORTIFY_SOURCE by default. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/lib/vasnprintf.c?id=913c09becd9df89dbd9b9f386e7f35c240d5efe8 --- lib/vasnprintf.c.orig 2005-05-24 05:44:33.000000000 +1200 +++ lib/vasnprintf.c 2015-04-12 18:56:46.352971555 +1200 @@ -558,9 +558,21 @@ } *p = dp->conversion; #if USE_SNPRINTF +# if !(__GLIBC__ > 2 || (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 3)) p[1] = '%'; p[2] = 'n'; p[3] = '\0'; +# else + /* On glibc2 systems from glibc >= 2.3 - probably also older + ones - we know that snprintf's returns value conforms to + ISO C 99: the gl_SNPRINTF_DIRECTIVE_N test passes. + Therefore we can avoid using %n in this situation. + On glibc2 systems from 2004-10-18 or newer, the use of %n + in format strings in writable memory may crash the program + (if compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), so we should avoid it + in this situation. */ + p[1] = '\0'; +# endif #else p[1] = '\0'; #endif