On 12 May 2015 at 04:58, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11 May 2015 17:46, Archie Cobbs wrote: >> There seems to be an issue with the asprintf() man page and underlying >> implementation (I'm using openSUSE 13.1 - man-pages-3.53). >> >> Since asprintf() is not POSIX, the man page effectively becomes the >> specification of its behavior. > > not really. glibc specifies its behavior in its manual: > https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Dynamic-Output.html Mike is of course right. > any behavior not covered in the manual is unspecified. if you want to clarify > it, you should start with the glibc lists. But it would be good to have this point clarified. The glibc manual omits to say anything here. Archie, do you want to take this to libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (and CC me, so that I might fix the man page if anything useful comes out of the conversation)? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
