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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:32:05 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r196752 - head/lib/libc/stdtime
Message-ID:  <20090903093205.GB1304@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20090903084325.GA65192@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <200909020456.n824uUqQ082136@svn.freebsd.org> <20090902070808.GA1290@arthur.nitro.dk> <20090902084002.GA17325@nagual.pp.ru> <867hwgcwvo.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20090903084325.GA65192@nagual.pp.ru>

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On 2009.09.03 12:43:25 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:26:03AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> > 
> >  - The core dump ache refers to can occur with a na??ve implementation
> >    that uses a lookup table and checks for EOF, but not for other
> >    negative values.
> 
> Thanx for detailed explanation. Just to note: even such naive 
> implemetations still live inside POSIX, since POSIX says that behaviour 
> outside of "unsigned char" range + exact EOF value is undefined.

Thanks to both of you for the detailed explanation.  Always good to
learn something new :-).

I haven't had time to review des's patch (I can tonight if "needed"),
but I certainly welcome documenting this case more clearly :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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