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Re: BUG REPORT: glibc 2.2 mbrtowc() fails to decode final byte
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Ulrich Drepper |
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Re: BUG REPORT: glibc 2.2 mbrtowc() fails to decode final byte |
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10 Jan 2001 13:53:33 -0800 |
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Markus Kuhn <address@hidden> writes:
> The following regression test fails in glibc 2.2 under linux-i386:
As Andreas said, this code doesn't fail anymore. But furthermore it's
incorrect:
> assert(mbrtowc(NULL, NULL, 0, &s) == 0); /* get s into initial state */
This is not how initializing a mbstate_t object can work. Since the
mbrtowc() function can read the mbstate_t object it will read
uninitialized memory. One has to use memset().
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