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diff --git a/lib/vasprintf.c b/lib/vasprintf.c
index bda9aa1b0..ba94c64ba 100644
--- a/lib/vasprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vasprintf.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Formatted output to strings.
- Copyright (C) 1999, 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1999, 2002-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
/* Specification. */
#include "vasprintf.h"
-#include <limits.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "vasnprintf.h"
@@ -34,15 +33,10 @@ vasprintf (char **resultp, const char *format, va_list args)
char *result = vasnprintf (NULL, &length, format, args);
if (result == NULL)
return -1;
- if (length > INT_MAX)
- {
- /* We could produce such a big string, but can't return its length
- as an 'int'. */
- free (result);
- return -1;
- }
*resultp = result;
- /* Return the number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing NUL. */
+ /* Return the number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing NUL.
+ If it wouldn't fit in an 'int', vasnprintf() would have returned NULL
+ and set errno to EOVERFLOW. */
return length;
}