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From: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>,
	phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, Michal Nowak <mnowak@startmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broken interactive rebase text after some UTF-8 characters
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 17:13:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3f4a6d2-7461-709a-6d1a-097785bb8664@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902010835210.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Hi Johannes,

Le 01/02/2019 à 08:38, Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:
>>
>>>> Are we misusing C formats?
>>>
>>> The C standard and POSIX both say that the * refers to the maximum
>>> number of bytes to print but it looks like it is being treated as the
>>> maximum number of characters on OpenIndiana.
>>>
>>> Johannes - Perhaps we should change it to use fwrite() unless printf()
>>> gets fixed and we're sure no other operating systems are affected?
>>
>> Avoid such a rewrite, as "%*.s" that takes (int, char *) are used in
>> many other places in our codebase, if you can.
> 
> Yes, this would be painful in particular in cases like
> 
> 	master:advice.c:101:           fprintf(stderr, _("%shint: %.*s%s\n"),
> 
> where we want to write more than just a variable-length buffer.
> 
> I am curious: is libintl (gettext) used on OpenIndiana? I ask because
> AFAIR fprintf() is overridden in that case, and the bug might be a lot
> easier to fix if it is in libintl rather than in libc.
> 
> Of course, it might *still* be a bug in libc by virtue of handing '%.*s'
> through to libc's implementation.
> 
> Alban, can you test this with NO_GETTEXT?

Sure. :)

The bug no longer happens when git is built with NO_GETTEXT.  All is
working as expected.

> 
> Thanks,
> Johannes
> 

Cheers,
Alban


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-15 19:29 Broken interactive rebase text after some UTF-8 characters Michal Nowak
2019-01-16 10:33 ` Phillip Wood
2019-01-16 21:36   ` Michal Nowak
2019-01-17 11:04     ` Phillip Wood
2019-01-31 17:43       ` Alban Gruin
2019-01-31 20:40         ` Phillip Wood
2019-01-31 21:00           ` Alban Gruin
2019-01-31 21:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-01  7:38             ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-01  9:06               ` Michal Nowak
2019-02-01 14:33                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-01 16:24                   ` Michal Nowak
2019-02-01 17:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-01 19:00                       ` Michal Nowak
2019-02-01 16:15                 ` Alban Gruin
2019-02-01 16:13               ` Alban Gruin [this message]

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