> If OpenBSD's behavior of asprintf is non-standard and everyone else is > doing it differently, we would probably have to apply the patch. But this > would also affect many other places in the tree were we rely on our > asprintf semantics.
Actually, we have fixed all usage cases in our tree to be portable. I have wondered in the past whether we should set the pointer to (void *)-1 instead of NULL, because this NULL return is a trap.