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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 8435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:19:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Q8n3V-0003Rm-2m@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoc4e69xi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:52:09 -0300)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,  8435@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:52:09 -0300
> 
> If the problematic case can be detected easily, that's good enough.

What would you suggest to do if we detect it?  To recap, this is in
the context of `message' or `error' called to produce a message about
something.

> I don't understand the problem enough (haven't dug into it yet) to know
> if that's the case.

There are two issues:

 . %c used to display a non-ASCII character, when the data points to a
   multibyte sequence.  doprnt converts the data to a wide character,
   when it displays the message, vsnprintf does not.

 . If the buffer supplied to doprnt is too small, it takes care to
   truncate the text only on character boundaries, whereas vsnprintf
   will not.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-10  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 19:59 bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts Paul Eggert
     [not found] ` <handler.8435.B.130211997010029.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2011-04-07  7:33   ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-07 12:29     ` Andy Moreton
2011-04-07 18:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 20:43       ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08  8:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 23:34           ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09  7:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 18:24               ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 18:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 19:39                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 20:21                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10  3:52                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-10  5:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-11  1:44                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-11  2:54                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 17:03                       ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 19:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 19:43                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08 23:37           ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-25  0:59             ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25  6:42               ` Eli Zaretskii

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