Hi Michal, Le 01/02/2019 à 10:06, Michal Nowak a écrit : > Johannes, > > On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8:38 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> Phillip Wood 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. > > here you can see the full output of the OpenIndiana git build: https://hipster.openindiana.org/logs/oi-userland/latest/git.publish.log. > > From what I see there, libintl was found. > > If you believe this is illumos libc bug, it would be cool if someone created an simple testcase, which I can forward to the illumos developers. > I attached a test case to this email. You can build it with `gcc test-case.c', and run it with `./a.out'. Output on my Linux system: Before setting locale: Expected output: áaaa Actual output: áaaa After setting locale: Expected output: áaaa Actual output: áaaa Output on an OpenIndiana system: Before setting locale: Expected output: áaaa Actual output: áaaa After setting locale: Expected output: áaaa Actual output: áaaaa > Thanks, > Michal > >> >> 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? >> >> Thanks, >> Johannes Cheers, Alban