Hi Michael,
I'm so sorry for this negative report.
Yeah, you're right. It'll fall through,loop again,do "vsprintf" and return if done.
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Best regards,
Eric, Ren
HA team, SUSE
>>>
> Hello Zhen Ren,
>
> On 27 March 2015 at 06:27, Zhen Ren <zren@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There is simple bug in EXAMPLE section of "man 3 vsprintf".
> >
> > Function will return nothing if it steps into the last "else {}".
> >
> > ------------------ example code -----------------
> > char *
> > make_message(const char *fmt, ...)
> > {
> > int n;
> > int size = 100; /* Guess we need no more than 100 bytes */
> > char *p, *np;
> > va_list ap;
> > .
> > .cut off
> > .
> > np = realloc(p, size);
> > if (np == NULL) {
> > free(p);
> > return NULL;
> > } else {
> > p = np;
> > + return p;
> > }
> > }
> > }
>
> I have not looked too closely at the code, but the above report
> appears incorrect to me. The function should NOT be returning at that
> point. It should be falling through and then round the loop once more.
> If I've missed something, could you elaborate a little more on the
> problem, please?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
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