cygwin 2.4.1: broken ps_AF and ps_AF.utf8 locales
Tony Cook
tony@develop-help.com
Tue Feb 2 04:33:00 GMT 2016
Hi list,
Simplified to a C program below, calls to sprintf() under the ps_AF
and ps_AF.utf8 locales are returning a value that doesn't match the
length of the formatted string:
tony@phobos ~
$ cat ps_AF.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char buf[100];
char *loc = argc > 1 ? argv[1] : "ps_AF";
const char *real_loc;
if (!(real_loc = setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, loc))) {
perror("setlocale");
return 1;
}
printf("locale %s\n", real_loc);
size_t len = sprintf(buf, "%g", 2.34);
printf("len %zu\n", len);
printf("strlen %zu\n", strlen(buf));
return 0;
}
tony@phobos ~
$ gcc -ops_AF.exe ps_AF.c
tony@phobos ~
$ ./ps_AF
locale ps_AF
len 4
strlen 5
tony@phobos ~
$ ./ps_AF ps_AF.utf8
locale ps_AF.utf8
len 4
strlen 5
tony@phobos ~
$ ./ps_AF en_US.utf8
locale en_US.utf8
len 4
strlen 4
tony@phobos ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW phobos 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) 2016-01-24 11:24 i686 Cygwin
The man pages and C standard could be read as sprintf() returning the
number of multi-byte characters, but if cygwin is intended to follow
Linux behaviour:
tony@mars:~/play$ gcc -ops_AF ps_AF.c
tony@mars:~/play$ ./ps_AF
locale ps_AF
len 5
strlen 5
tony@mars:~/play$ ./ps_AF ps_AF.utf8
locale ps_AF.utf8
len 5
strlen 5
tony@mars:~/play$ ./ps_AF en_AU.utf8
locale en_AU.utf8
len 4
strlen 4
tony@mars:~/play$ uname -a
Linux mars 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
(and the decimal point under ps_AF on Linux is multi-byte, character
0x66b or ARABIC DECIMAL SEPARATOR.)
POSIX is less confusing and specifies:
Upon successful completion, the sprintf() function shall return the
number of bytes written to s, excluding the terminating null byte.
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fprintf.html)
Tony
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