strxfrm() returns an incorrect value if you supply an output buffer
and that buffer is too short for the result.
With the code following:
#include <string.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char xbuf[5] = "";
char *lc = setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_AU.utf8");
if (!lc) {
perror("setlocale");
return 1;
}
size_t sza = strxfrm(xbuf, "alphabet", sizeof(xbuf));
printf("sz: %zd\n", sza);
size_t szb = strxfrm(NULL, "alphabet", 0);
printf("sz: %zd\n", szb);
return 0;
}
On cygwin:
tony@phobos ~
$ gcc -ostrxfrmtest strxfrmtest.c
tony@phobos ~
$ ./strxfrmtest
sz: 5
sz: 20
tony@phobos ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW phobos 2.5.0(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-11 09:55 i686 Cygwin
On Linux:
tony@mars:~$ gcc -ostrxfrmtest strxfrmtest.c
tony@mars:~$ ./strxfrmtest
sz: 26
sz: 26
tony@mars:~$ uname -a
Linux mars 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
>From looking at the source:
https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/nlsfuncs.cc;h=9dbd9b16d53094c60aa835756c967c054ced8e62;hb=HEAD#l1286
It appears that strxfrm() is just returning the size of the output
buffer on an overflow error rather than calling LCMapString() again
with cchDest set to zero to get the required buffer length that
strxfrm() is meant to return on a short buffer.
This came out of the discussion in:
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121734
(not that I've reproduced that issue.)
Tony
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