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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:46:35 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: string-backed FILEs mess
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:30:22PM +0200, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 01:48:37PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
> > Happy early Hallowe'en:
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87096
> >
>
> You know, if I were programming on Linux professionally rather than as a
> hobby, stuff like this would drive me to drink. I mean, in this case it
> is a return value on a pathological case, but actually, it's sort of my
> point: C says, snprintf() is undefined with a buffer size of more than
> INT_MAX, POSIX defines it, and GCC just goes with the ISO-C version --
> because they can? Great!
In this case, it's not undefined. ISO C defines it as success (there's
nothing erroneous about the buffer being large; it's only an error if
the output would exceed INT_MAX in length). POSIX then erroneously
(because it nominally extends C and defers to it in case of accidental
conflict) redefines it as an error.
Rich
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