gconv bug and documentation deficiency

Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com
Fri Jan 5 07:24:00 GMT 2001


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > The bug:
> 
> I've fixed this now.
> 
> >  iconv() can exit with an errno of E2BIG for 2 reasons:
> > 
> >   - The output buffer is full
> >   - An internal intermediate buffer is full
> 
> Give me an example.  This should never be the case.  The internal
> buffers should at no point have visible effects.  If an internal
> buffer is full the next conversion in the chain is called to flush it.

Attached,
                                        Owen



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