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Re: strxfrm() returns an incorrect value on a short buffer


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:30:49PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 12 15:07, Tony Cook wrote:
> > strxfrm() returns an incorrect value if you supply an output buffer
> > and that buffer is too short for the result.
> > 
> > With the code following:
> > [...]
> > It appears that strxfrm() is just returning the size of the output
> > buffer on an overflow error rather than calling LCMapString() again
> > with cchDest set to zero to get the required buffer length that
> > strxfrm() is meant to return on a short buffer.
> 
> Thanks for the testcase.  I applied a patch
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=e1854211
> 
> and created new snapshots on
> 
>   https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> Please give them a try.

Thanks, fixed in snapshot 20160412.

Tony

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