On Fri, 06 May 2016 18:53:28 +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > It is not an issue, but I thought it was not intended because the > asprintf(3) documentation said: > > "The value of ret in this situation is > implementation-dependent (on OpenBSD, ret will be set to the null > pointer, >but this behavior should not be relied upon<)."
Some time ago there was talk of changing the documented value of ret on error in glibc, but it doesn't seem to have happened. In light of that, it is probably best to explicitly NULL out the value as per your patch. - todd
