Bug#916779: libc6-armhf-cross: strerror(-3) sets errno to ENOMEM

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On 2018-12-18 21:34, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2018-12-18 15:15, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> > Package: libc6-armhf-cross
> > Version: 2.28-2cross2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > currently strerror(-3) sets errno unexpectedly to ENOMEM (12).
> > 
> > The expected errno value would be either EINVAL or not touching errno
> > at all.
> > 
> > This behavior is relatively new and causes some CI cross builds to fail.
> > The failing test is a gnulib test (test-strerror.c).
> > 
> 
> I can reproduce the issue with libc6-armhf-cross 2.28-2cross2 and
> qemu-arm-static 1:3.1+dfsg-1, but not with the same binary on real
> hardware nor on qemu-user-static 1:2.12+dfsg-3+b1. I would therefore
> think it's a qemu bug.

Hmm, I am wrong, I can actually reproduce it with qemu-user-static
version 1:2.12+dfsg-3+b1. But I can't reproduce it on real hardware.

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