Re: [PATCH v3] gettext.c: detect the vsnprintf bug at runtime

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> --- a/gettext.c
>> +++ b/gettext.c
>> @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ int use_gettext_poison(void)
>>  #endif
>>
>>  #ifndef NO_GETTEXT
>> +static int test_vsnprintf(const char *fmt, ...)
>> +{
>> +     char buf[26];
>> +     int ret;
>> +     va_list ap;
>> +     va_start(ap, fmt);
>> +     ret = vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
>> +     va_end(ap);
>> +     return ret;
>> +}
>> +
> this function alway run each time we run git commad while libc is
> static. It is waste.
>> +     /* the string is taken from v0.99.6~1 */
>> +     if (test_vsnprintf("%.*s", 13, "David_K\345gedal") < 0)
>> +             setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
>>  }
>>
>>  void git_setup_gettext(void)
>
> I suggest use C preprocessor instead. The person who complete git (make debian, rpm etc. package) decide  enable it or not (disable by default). Most of people use git from distribution instead of complete it from source.
>
> #ifndef VSNPRINTF_OK
>         setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
> #endif
>

A single vsnprintf is cheap enough that I would not worry about
performance impact. Given a choice between this and distro
maintainers, some of them do check release notes, some not so much,
I'd rather go with this.
-- 
Duy
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