final iconv call is buggy

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Mon Dec 20 23:24:00 GMT 1999


Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> In glibc-2.1.1, calling iconv(3) with a NULL pointer as inptr (the documented
> way to emit the shift sequences which returns to the initial state) produces
> wrong results. It produces many output bytes even though the previous
> iconv() call has terminated with inbytesleft == 0 and both encodings are
> stateless. In this case it should simply return 0 without doing anything.

The immediate problem you've seen is fixed.  But I had to fix gconv.c
a bit to make it work.  It should work with 2.1.3 now.  Thanks,

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