Re: undefined references since newlib-3.2.0

[Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:20:54AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:

> Here are some affected libc functions which don't return a pointer and
> which have no error indication of any kind:
> 
>         atof
>         atoff
> [ ... ]
>         strtod
>         strtof
>         strtold
>         wcstod
>         wcstold
>         strtodg

Uh! Why on earth would those functions need to allocate memory?

> These now return infinity and set errno to ERANGE on allocation
> failure. (not ideal, but the options are limited)
> 
> Here are some which do return a pointer, but do not document any errors:
> 
>         ecvt
>         fcvt

Maybe the documentation can be fixed?

>         gcvt
>         ecvtbuf
>         fcvtbuf
>         gcvtbuf

Those get a pointer passed. No need to allocate memory.

> And here's a list of functions which I feel reasonable applications
> should not expect an allocation error from:

I don't think any application should expect those functions to call exit()
and/or abort() either.

>         sprintf
>         snprintf

Those should return -1 on failure.

>         sscanf

For this, ENOMEM is documented.

-- 
Josef Wolf
jw@raven.inka.de