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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:16:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: isprint core dump
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Nellis, Kenneth  wrote:
> From: Eric Blake
>
>> No, but it DOES come from POSIX:
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint.html
>>
>> And cygwin's behavior matches POSIX on this point; the bug is in your
>> program, not cygwin.
>
> Call me blown away by the level of support this function that
> dumps core is getting, when it could act sanely (IMHO) with a
> simple "if" statement! So much for defensive programming.

Like it or not, this is how C works. If you want defensive programming
with bounds checking and stuff, try Pascal or Java.

The man page of isprint states:
int isprint(int c);
These functions check whether c, which must have the value of an
unsigned char or EOF...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If the argument has any other value, the behavior is undefined.

This is a contract between the library and you, the library user. You
promise to pass an argument between -1 and 255. isprint promises to
return a correct result.

You didn't keep your promise, so isprint is free to do anything it
wants including, but not limited to, opening your web browser at
http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Csaba
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