Re: fold/glibc issue on x86_64

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Radke <address@hidden> wrote:
> i got a bugreport from one ArchLinux x86_64 user :
>
>  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5365
>
> Calling fold with 2 files ends up with a glibc hickup:

Thanks for reporting that.  However, that bug is in a change
(the i18n one) that is not in upstream coreutils.

Assuming you have access to the sources, including the patch file, that
may be named coreutils-i18n.patch, you can fix this bug by removing this
line from the end of the fold_out function:

  free(line_out);

The "line_out" variable is local to that function, yet declared
"static", and so need not be freed at all.