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Re: Undocumented behavior of hcreate_r



On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0400, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writting to report a weird behavior of hcreate_r function from
> libc6. After being for some long, long hours debugging my program, I
> decided to open the source code from GNU and discovered that they
> require the hsearch_data structure passed to hcreate_r to be initialized
> with zeroes (all fields NULL). There is nothing reporting this in the
> manpages, although I think this is actually an implementation flaw from
> GNU. Well, I hope this can help someone else not to be spending time
> debugging a program whose bug is in libc6... :-)

Why not report it as a wishlist bug?  Perhaps even with a man-page
patch?  [ Saves people searching for/stumbling across the mailing list
archive ...]

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Karl E. Jørgensen
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