Re: oid failures on Alpha solved - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brent Verner
Subject Re: oid failures on Alpha solved
Date
Msg-id 20001230212535.A2067@rcfile.org
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In response to Re: oid failures on Alpha solved  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 30 Dec 2000 at 14:24 (-0500), Tom Lane wrote:
| > Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> writes:
| >> formatting '-1040' with '%u'
| >> snprintf = 18446744073709550576
| >> sprintf  = 4294966256
| 
| >> oidout() is where the offending call originates, FWIW.
| >> snprintf(result, 12, "%u", o);
| 
| > Hm.  This is clearly a bug in snprintf.
| 
| OK, I was able to duplicate this failure on Debian Alpha after forcing
| our snprintf emulation to be used instead of the system's.  Problem is
| sloppy signed-vs-unsigned casting in snprintf.c.  I've committed a fix.
| Another day, another bug...

indeed. the most recent snprintf.c works as expected.

thank you. brent


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