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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