Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:19:36 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Wrong wcsnrtombs return value and positive NaNs printing

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 02:12:52PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:20:00PM +0300, Oleg Ranevskyy wrote:
> > Hello musl community,
> > 
> > I encountered two problems with musl when running the LLVM libc++ tests
> > linked against it.
> > 
> > 1. The wcsnrtombs function returns the number of converted wide chars
> > instead of the dst length in bytes. "cnt++;" at the of the function should
> > actually be "cnt += l;".
> 
> This looks like you're correct, especially considering it's cnt+=l in
> the first loop. I'll recheck it and fix if I confirm. Thanks.

Fixed.

> > 2. If a NaN value is printed by vfprintf and the MARK_POS flag is set to
> > add '+' to positive values, musl doesn't add '+'. I found the following
> > statement on the musl web page: "Quiet nans are treated equally (there is
> > only one logical nan value, it is printed as "nan", the library does not
> > care about the sign and payload of nan)". However, Linux libc adds '+',
> > boost also has special support for this. Absence of the sign breaks one of
> > the LLVM libc++ tests. Is this a subject for change?
> 
> Based on my reading of the spec I think you're right that it should be
> there. I can fix this.

Fixed.

Rich

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.