Bug#277667: libc6: printf formats using parameter numbers and floats has internal error

[Steve Greenland <steveg@lsli.com>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:55:08AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> This bug should be fixed in the next glibc update.

Cool.

> > This is almost certainly an upstream problem, as I get identical (well,
> > different addresses) results on RHEL 3.0, but if I report it to you, I
> > don't have to fight bugzilla. :-)
> 
> Don't be afraid to use bugzilla :-)

I'm not afraid of it, I just don't like it. It's a prime example of
"let's add every feature that occurs to someone, without any judgement
as to value vs. complexity."

> If you find such infinite loop will be occured after our update,
> please submit another bug report.

Sure. I doubt that this is really the problem, but it's something I came
across while trying to figure it out.

Steve

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