#!/bin/sh # Detect printf(3) failure even when it doesn't set stream error indicator # Copyright (C) 2007 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 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . prog="$abs_top_builddir/src/printf" if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then set -x "$prog" --version fi . $srcdir/../test-lib.sh fail=0 # The literal width below is 2^31-1. # I expect this usage of the printf program to fail. # However, it depends on the C library printf function. # It could conceivably output "1." and 2GB worth of '0's. # You can provoke misbehavior with a much smaller width if you limit # virtual memory via, e.g., ulimit -v 10000, but using ulimit would # be tricky, since it's not portable. "$prog" %.2147483647f 1 > /dev/null 2> err && fail=1 echo "$prog: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" \ > exp || framework_failure compare err exp || fail=1 (exit $fail); exit $fail