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From: "Eduardo D'Avila" <erdavila AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:05:40 -0200
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Subject: Re: Bug printing string where the 128th char is multibyte
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Using the %s  didn't solve the problem:


erdavila AT antares ~/perl/feedbacks
$ cat BUG.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
        const char * str =3D
                "0123456789"    //   0 -   9
                "0123456789"    //  10 -  19
                "0123456789"    //  20 -  29
                "0123456789"    //  30 -  39
                "0123456789"    //  40 -  49
                "0123456789"    //  50 -  59
                "0123456789"    //  60 -  69
                "0123456789"    //  70 -  79
                "0123456789"    //  80 -  89
                "0123456789"    //  90 -  99
                "0123456789"    // 100 - 109
                "0123456789"    // 110 - 119
                "0123456=E789"    // 120 - 127
                ;

        printf("%s", str);

        return 0;
}

erdavila AT antares ~/perl/feedbacks
$ gcc -Wall BUG.c  -o BUG

erdavila AT antares ~/perl/feedbacks
$ ./BUG
=E789



Eduardo R. D'Avila



2010/1/4 Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>:
> Eduardo D'Avila <erdavila <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've found a bug that happens when the 128th (index 127 on a 0-based
>> string) char of a string is a multibyte char. When I print such
>> string, only the multibyte char and the chars after it are displayed.
>
> What you've found is a bug in your own program, at lesat for the BUG.c ve=
rsion
> of your report.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00100.html
>
> Try 'printf ("%s",str)' rather than 'printf (str)' to see the difference.=
 =A0And
> why 128 bytes into the string? =A0That's the cutoff of where gcc optimize=
s a
> printf without % into a puts.
>
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