On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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)? Hi Michael, Will do.. thanks for the pointer. -Archie -- Archie L. Cobbs -- 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
