Hi,
I am making the muggle plugin work with UTF-8 and have a little problem:
since asprintf leads to segfaults if feeded with incorrect UTF-8 characters,
I wanted to write a wrapper function which would then check the return value
of asprintf. However I have a problem with the variable argument list and
the va_* macros. Using gdb shows that, in the following example, in
res=asprintf (strp, fmt, ap);
ap is interpreted not as a list of arguments but as an integer.
What is wrong here?
BTW I am quite sure that vdr will sometimes coredump since it never checks the
return value of asprintf. One suspect would be if somebody used a latin1
charset and had special characters like äöü in file names and then changes
to utf-8 without converting file names to utf-8. If vdr then passes such
a file name to asprintf, corrupted memory results. Might be difficult
to debug remotely.
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int
msprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list ap;
int res;
va_start (ap, fmt);
res=asprintf (strp, fmt, ap);
va_end (ap);
}
int main()
{
char *buffer;
asprintf(&buffer,"test: %d\n",5);
write(1,buffer,strlen(buffer));
free(buffer);
msprintf(&buffer,"test: %d\n",5);
write(1,buffer,strlen(buffer));
free(buffer);
}
--
Wolfgang
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