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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131

Description of problem:
sprintf() don't handle strings bigger than 2^26 bytes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.2-27.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use this source :
test.c
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define SIZE (1024*70000)
int main(void) {
    char * s = malloc(SIZE) ;
    char * d = malloc(SIZE) ;
    memset(s, 'a', SIZE-1) ;
    d[SIZE-1] = '\0' ;
    sprintf(d,"%s",s) ;
    printf("%zi\n", strlen(d)) ;
    return 0 ;
}
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compile :
$ gcc test.c
execute :
$ ./a.out


Actual Results:  67108863 (2^26-1)

Expected Results:  71679999

Additional info:

This cause to me some trouble with postgresql (look at the end of the message) :
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-05/msg00516.php