-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 2/27/2009 4:22 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >>> if (sprintf (buf, "%ls", wstring) != -1) >>> return 2; >>> because it does not fail on any known platform. >> Actually, it DOES fail, on cygwin 1.7.0. But that is due to a bug in >> cygwin wctomb[1] > > So, activating the *printf replacements for this bug would not help, because > the code in vasnprintf uses wcrtomb and would therefore exhibit the same > behaviour as Cygwin's *printf. [1][2] Right?
You are correct that a gnulib workaround for this particular cygwin bug wouldn't help matters. However, the cygwin bug is being fixed [1], and since no released version of cygwin contains it, we don't have to worry about it in gnulib. [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00202.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmn54QACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCz9gCfdU63Bwa7+FEeIHSY0uDDdlAg wagAn069QH03Vk8+RluZWqCVmyaIquvf =2dKp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
