Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/27/03:41:45
Hello Eli,
26.05.98, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 1998, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> I found that constant MAXFILE defined in dir.h is equal 9 which means
>> that buffer for file name generated by fnsplit() must be at least 8
>> symbols length. But DJGPP's libc support long file names (LFN) up to
>> 260 symbols length and in such case buffer must be greater than 8
>> symbols to proper file name handling. It means that every time when
>> fnsplit() proceed with file name longer than 8 symbols the result will
>> be undefined.
> I understand that this is a bug in the example only, because the rest of
> the code doesn't depend on MAXFILE. Is that what you are telling, or is
> there any additional problems with the function itself?
Yes, but the same problem can arise and at other users, since the
documentation on libc speaks that the buffer for filename should be
length MAXFILE. I suggest to change this constant to be larger in the
next releases of GCC.
Alexander Bokovoy, <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by>
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