Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:10:02 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mikko@rsasecurity.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/17694: wcstombs() and mbstowcs() unable to handle NULL argument Message-ID: <200003310910.BAA74098@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/17694; it has been noted by GNATS. From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mikko@rsasecurity.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/17694: wcstombs() and mbstowcs() unable to handle NULL argument Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:08:34 +0200 (MET DST) On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > > <whine> > > But everybody else has it... > > </whine> > > > > Seriously, though: I have not been able to find *any* other > > implementation that does not support this behaviour (HP-UX, AIX, Irix, > > Solaris and Linux/RH6.1). They must have gotten the idea *somewhere*... > > It doesn't seem to be in glibc-2.1.1 either. Oh, it is there alright, but not documented in the info files (RH must be rolling their own man-pages?). Follow "stdlib/wcstombs.c" to "wcsmbs/wcsrtombs.c", search for "NULL special". No mention of why they do it, though. MSVC++ 6.0 does it too (might be a hint where it comes from :-( ). Finally, I did find another system that does not handle the NULL case, according to its documentation at least: DEC (i.e. Compaq whatever). Never mind. /Mikko Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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