With SQLite 3.7.13 (the current version), if you pass a negative
length to sqlite3_bind_blob, you get an assertion failure:
sqlite3.c:59949: sqlite3VdbeMemSetStr: Assertion `enc!=0' failed.
Here is the relevant source code:
...
if( nByte<0 ){
assert( enc!=0 );
if( enc==SQLITE_UTF8 ){
for(nByte=0; nByte<=iLimit && z[nByte]; nByte++){}
}else{
for(nByte=0; nByte<=iLimit && (z[nByte] | z[nByte+1]); nByte+=2){}
}
flags |= MEM_Term;
}
...
If assertions are not turned on, it takes the second branch, treating
the string as UTF-16 (output of attached test program):
sqlite3_bind_blob returned 0
column type: BLOB
column text: foo^@garbage^@
column bytes: 12
This is not a bug, strictly speaking. It doesn't really make sense
for a BLOB to be NUL-terminated. But the documentation does not make
it clear that this is undefined behavior [1]:
>In those routines that have a fourth argument, its value is the number of
>bytes in the parameter. To be clear: the value is the number of bytes in the
>value, not the number of characters. If the fourth parameter is negative, the
>length of the string is the number of bytes up to the first zero terminator.
>...
[1]: http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/bind_blob.html
Giving a negative length to sqlite3_bind_blob might be an easy trap to
fall into, since sqlite3_bind_text *does* let you give a negative
length, which basically means strlen(value).
I think the documentation should mention that a negative length
argument is only allowed for text and text16.
Thanks,
-Joey
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