On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:02:09AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Andreas Gietl <a.gietl@???> wrote:
> >
> >that fixes it, but i'm sure this only cures the symptoms, not the cause.
>
> No, the problem is that the code assumes that errno!=ERANGE when strtol()
> succeeds, which is not guaranteed because errno is not altered when
> strtol succeeds so a previous error may trigger the error handling code.
> I analysed this bug and reported it to Philip last week.
Have you got any idea why the bug is not triggered on all systems? I
have never seen it on Debian.
cu andreas
