[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57368] Printf() with +Inf precision causes segfault

[Rik]

Update of bug #57368 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   5.1.0 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed on the development branch.

This would seem to me fairly simple to avoid by having the programmer check
their precision for reasonableness before printing.  Sample code might be


precision = min (precision, 20);


Internally, Octave relies on vasprintf which is supplied by gnulib.  In the
long term, this is in an upstream bug that needs to be reported and fixed in
that project.


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