Re: protecting malloc(), etc

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sat Feb 06 1999 - 22:18:05 EST

On Feb 5, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Unfortunately, libltdl uses stdio, although it didn't look like that
> would be hard to fix.

Where does it?

> I must admit I don't know about sprintf: is it async-signal-safe?

I doubt we can assume it is. Even if it is in one platform or two,
we'd better assume it is not, since some implementor might decide to
save state in static variables. 

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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