Re: xreadlink.c initial buffer size guesstimate

2007-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Liyang HU on 1/13/2007 4:48 PM: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:30:24AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >> why should you expect sane behavior from tools that assume POSIX? > > If xreadlink() assumed POSIX, it would allocate a fixed buffer of 256 b

RE: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow & portability

2007-01-13 Thread Meissner, Michael
> -Original Message- > I would like to say the one thing I have not heard through this > discussion is the real reason why the C standards comittee decided > signed overflow as being undefined. All I can think of is they were > thinking of target that do saturation for plus/minus but wrapp

Re: copyright notice for regexprops-generic.texi

2007-01-13 Thread James Youngman
On 8/15/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For lack of a better solution I installed this into regexprops-generic.texi. After looking at the findutils sources I don't see how the file is generated automatically -- perhaps some by-hand processing is always done? In gnulib, yes. The file

striconv tweak

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, For some iconv encodings the buffer needs to be aligned. This fixes an alignment issue on CPUs other than x86. 2007-01-10 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/striconv.c (mem_cd_iconv): Align the temporary buffer. *** gnulib-20070109/lib/striconv.c 2007-01-09 00:14:32.