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Message-ID: <20150921202333.GS17773@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:23:33 -0400 From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: localeconv and char values On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:54:25AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:21:34PM +0200, Julien Ramseier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Currently, all the char fields of the lconv struct returned by > > localeconv are set to -1. > > > > According to > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localeconv.html > > <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localeconv.html>, > > negative values are not valid and CHAR_MAX should be used to > > indicate non-available values. > > As far as I can tell, you are right. I don't know how I > overlooked/misread this, except perhaps that using CHAR_MAX is rather > ugly/inappropriate because it assumes CHAR_MAX is not an interesting > character that could be used for these purposes. Thankfully that's > true for ASCII and ASCII supersets (in our case, UTF-8), so it's not a > practical problem. > > > If I’m not missing anything, here’s the corresponding patch: > > I'll look it over again before committing, but I don't see anything > immediately wrong with it. Thanks! BTW as a new contributor would you like to be credited as commit author (includes name/email) in the git log or just by name in the commit message (or not at all)? Rich
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