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Bug in OD utility

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Message #20 received at 25004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Marcel Böhme <boehme.marcel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25004: Bug in OD utility
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:49:57 -0800

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Marcel Böhme <boehme.marcel <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
>
>> On 24 Nov 2016, at 8:45 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't reproduce the issue here BTW with ASAN and running in a tight
>> loop for a few minutes.  So perhaps it has been fixed in glibc already?
>> I have glibc-2.22-10.fc23.x86_64
>> Depending on how widespread the issue is will determine if it's worth
>> adding the check to gnulib.
>
> I can reproduce the crash on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 with preinstalled od version 8.21 and the version in trunk.
>
>> What libc are you using?
>
> $ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> GNU C Library (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.9) stable release version 2.19, by Roland McGrath et al.
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
> Compiled by GNU CC version 4.8.4.
...

Both gcc-4.8.4 and EGLIBC 2.19 are showing their age.
I too have failed to reproduce this. I used a Fedora 25 system, which
has glibc-2.24.

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