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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:36:17 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.1.18: bug in strerror ?
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On Aug 18 17:13, Bill Metzenthen wrote:
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   char *s;
>   s = strerror(-8);
>   printf("strerror returned pointer %p\n", s);
>   printf("string is \"%s\"\n", s);
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> The output on my system is:
> $ ./test-strerror.exe
> strerror returned pointer 0x8c
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Thanks for the testcase.  I fixed a missing check for negative
error numbers in strerror in current CVS.


Corinna

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