[vdr] trouble with asprintf

[Udo Richter]

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> 	char *s;
> 	asprintf(&s,"%ld-%.9s",random(),artist.original());
> 
> segfaults only if illegal utf8 chars appear in artist.original()
> 
> asprintf returns -1, so s is nothing that could be freed,
> and this gives a nice backtrace:

So its basically just free'ing an uninitialized pointer.

Well, that leads to the question whether s is unchanged in case of a -1 
error return, and whether this would work:

	char *s = NULL;
	asprintf(&s,"%ld-%.9s",random(),artist.original());

Cheers,

Udo