Re: Clear up strxfrm() in UTF-8 with locale on Windows

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Clear up strxfrm() in UTF-8 with locale on Windows
Date: 2007-05-05 17:07:38
Message-ID: 463CB9DA.8010005@hagander.net
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:25:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>> Given this, perhaps the proper approach should instead be to just check
>>> the return value, and go from there? Should be a simple enough patch,
>>> something like the attached.
>>> Tom, can you comment?
>> Testing against INT_MAX seems like a type pun, or something. Maybe use
>> MaxAllocSize instead?
>
> The windows API documentation specifically says:
> On an error, each function sets errno and returns INT_MAX.
>
> So actually an equality test against INT_MAX would be correct. But making
> that clear in the comment would probably not be a bad idea :-)

I have applied a fix for this, because it obviously needed fixing
regardless of if it fixes the original issue all the way. Still looking
for confirmation if it does, though.

//Magnus

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