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Re: Dangerous glibc byte/wide stream interactions

To: Harald Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand dot no>
Subject: Re: Dangerous glibc byte/wide stream interactions
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 24 Sep 2000 14:53:13 -0700
Cc: linux-utf8 at nl dot linux dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <Bruno Haible's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:09:50 +0200(CEST)"> <E13cQnC-00037v-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk><14795.19470.329150.167712@honolulu.ilog.fr><4.3.2.7.2.20000924171529.03d51820@127.0.0.1>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no> writes:

> a check (if mode != rightmode {die with snide comment}) would seem
> appropriate, have moderate execution time impact, and would possibly reduce
> the amount of hair loss in C programmers.

No.  This is no debugging library, it's a runtime library.

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