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Re: mbrtowc bug


On Jul 20 13:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 20 05:15, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > The gnulib unit tests are declaring that cygwin's mbrtowc is broken.  STC:
> > 
> > #include <locale.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <wchar.h>
> > int main ()
> > {
> >   if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "ja_JP.eucJP") != NULL)
> >     {
> >       char input[] = "B\217\253\344\217\251\316er";
> > 
> >       mbstate_t state;
> >       wchar_t wc;
> > 
> >       memset (&state, '\0', sizeof (mbstate_t));
> >       if (mbrtowc (&wc, input + 1, 1, &state) == (size_t)(-2))
> >         {
> >           input[1] = '\0';
> >           if (mbrtowc (&wc, input + 2, 5, &state) != 2)
> >             return 1;
> >         }
> >     }
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > According to Bruno Haible[1], the bug is in the __eucjp_wctomb and
> > __eucjp_mbtowc implementations.

What bug?!?  When I run this testcase on Cygwin 1.7, it returns 0.  What
is the supposed error and what is expected if it's behaving correctly?
My japanese is a bit rusty so I don't understand the input string and
what the test is actually testing.


Corinna

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