Bug#404739: Processed: reassign 404739 to gss

[Simon Josefsson]

Steve Langasek <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:47:53AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> >> Has this problem been seen on any archs other than amd64, where it
>> >> fails the testsuite and therefore generates no binaries?
>
>> > No.
>
>> I just realized that I were wrong here, and that this may affect the
>> choice of severity level.
>
>> The problem applies to all architectures where sizeof(int) <
>> sizeof(size_t), which includes ia64 and maybe other 64-bit platforms.
>
> Ah, yes; assuming this code is liable to break under other circumstances at
> runtime then,

The buggy function is part of the external API, so yes, there are no
guarantees for what it will be used for, and I think it will break for
most typical uses, unless the compiler leaves extra room on the stack
(which it seems to have happened to do for the 64-bit and non-amd64
platforms, otherwise the self test would have crashed on those
platforms as well).

> it may well be a release critical bug.

I'll let Russ decide.  A fixed package should be ready to upload
anyway.

/Simon