On 11/13/13 10:24, Arif Zaman wrote:
> Sorry, my last message contained html. Here is a plain-text version of the same thing.
>
> In the final example on the man page for snprintf (3),
>
> after the /* check error code */ there should be:
>
> if (n < 0) {
> free(p);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> in order to avoid a memory leak.
>
> This was discussed on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19933479/snprintf-man-page-example-memory-leak.
Thanks for reporting this. I made the change as you suggest.
Cheers,
Michael
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