I'm writing to let you know that bug 32708 can be closed.

It is not an Emacs issue, but rather a bug in glibc on the (rather old)
RHEL5 system on which I'm compiling and running emacs26.

The issue has been raised as Bug 6843 [1] and fixed some time ago in the
glibc source tree [2], [3].

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6843
[2]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=bf837fa36ff39d077b09ce592b1c4c38592586c1
[3]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf837fa36ff39d077b09ce592b1c4c38592586c1

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