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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vsprintf: make %pV handling compatible with kasprintf()
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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:49 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> kasprintf() (and potentially other functions that I didn't run across
> so far) want to evaluate argument lists twice. Caring to do so for the
> primary list is obviously their job, but they can't reasonably be
> expected to check the format string for instances of %pV, which however
> need special handling too: On architectures like x86-64 (as opposed to
> e.g. ix86), using the same argument list twice doesn't produce the
> expected results, as an internally managed cursor gets updated during
> the first run.
>
> Fix the problem by always acting on a copy of the original list when
> handling %pV.

Wouldn't stable need this too?




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