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Re: [PATCH]: Trying to get rid of iconv dependency on windows

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-10-13 17:27:55 CEST

Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:18:42PM +0200, Stefan Küng wrote:
>
>>And I don't think it's an argument to prevent this patch from going in,
>>if you can't even tell under *what* circumstances these functions are
>>broken.
>>
>
>
> You're right, sorry, that was a pretty pointless post, wasn't it? (I
> blame the cold I've got at the moment).
>
> One quick question: If I remember correctly, the Win32 functions will fill
> up an output buffer completely if the buffer is too small, without a null
> terminator. I'm not familiar with the APR functions - do they do the same?

The behaviour if the function fails is undefined, i.e. the content of
the output buffer. But I don't see a problem: if the function fails, the
output isn't used anyway.

Stefan

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