On Wed, 01 May 2013 15:00:57 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:

> On 01/05/13 14:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 May 2013 14:37:37 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
> > said:
> >
> >> On 01/05/13 14:17, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:42 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
> >>> said:
> >>>
> >>>> On 01/05/13 14:07, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 13:52:50 +0100 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com>
> >>>>> said:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 01/05/13 13:54, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:00:01 +0100 Tom Hacohen
> >>>>>>> <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 01/05/13 10:58, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2013 10:08:48 +0100 Tom Hacohen
> >>>>>>>>> <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On 30/04/13 18:48, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:15:05 +0100 Tom Hacohen
> >>>>>>>>>>> <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Where did you get that on?
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Anyhow, what do you think about changing it to unsigned wchar_t?
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> on my pentium-m test machine... unicode val 0 was < 0 and thus
> >>>>>>>>>>> walked below the array. yes. literally a negative.  wouldnt that
> >>>>>>>>>>> be wuchar_t or something? as wchar_t .. is a typedef... :)
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Hm... Annoying. There's no wuchar_t though.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> then we have... a problem... and it requires we check for < 0. :(
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I think me might be better off casting to unsigned. Damn you people
> >>>>>>>> for not doing all the char type unsigned, wth?!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> chances are the compiler will produce the exact same code
> >>>>>>> regardless... a cast or what is there now.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Nah, the whole point of the cast is to convert it to unsigned, I'm
> >>>>>> quite certain the compiler is capable of doing that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but your casting inside the func to just avoid if (x < 0)... which a
> >>>>> compiler will figure out to be the same as the cast to unsigned...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The cast will work for unicode values that are greater than the signed
> >>>> limit (less than 0), while the if just fail for them.
> >>>
> >>> there are no unicode values of that magnitude... unicode by definition
> >>> doesnt even get close to using the most significant bit... :) it's by
> >>> definition an invalid code if < 0 (for 32bit signed)...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Oh, forgot to mention, I was thinking about boxes where wchar_t is
> >> signed and 16bit. :) There we'll have trouble.
> >> If you got negative values it must mean you've reached big enough
> >> unicode values, so the issue I'm describing is indeed real.
> >
> > on boxes where its 16bit.. we will have problems... because unicode does not
> > fit into 16bit.... we explicitly MUSt have it be a 32bit type in order to
> > have enough space to store the hmmm... 22? bits needed for unicode? quick
> > check... 10ffff  is the top unicode value... that means 21bits... so
> > unicode needs 21bits. if we have 16bit wchar_t's we are not able to do
> > unicode. signed or not is irrelevant here. if its 32bit... we don't care :)
> >
> 
> Well, a subset of... :)
> 
> But anyhow, how did you get your issue then? That it was negative? 
> That's what I'm interested in, as that means it's a path we actually get to.

it looked like a garbage buffer... but evas shouldnt segv if there is an
invalid unicode value there... :)


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