Mike Williams wrote:
> On 18/08/2010 10:09, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bram!
> >>
> >> On Mi, 18 Aug 2010, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mo, 16 Aug 2010, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Anyway, I noticed another problem. I cannot edit my .vimrc from
> >>>>> within gvim. When writing it, gvim simply crashes.
> >>>>
> >>>> I found the problem. It can be reproduced on Windows using this
> >>>> commandline:
> >>>>
> >>>> gvim -u NONE -U NONE -N -c "echo strftime('%a %Y\-%m\-%d %R')"
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for figuring that out. Perhaps someone knows how to fix it?
> >>> Which gvim version is this with?
> >>
> >> As Benjamin said, it's %R and also %T that triggers it. My environment
> >> is 32bit WinXP using the official built gvim73.exe from www.vim.org.
> >>
> >> BTW: a self compiled mingw-Version does not crash. It simply returns
> >> the empty string for %R and %T
> >
> > Via the PHP caveats on strftime (non-)portability[1] that specifically
> > mentioned %T and %R on Windows, I also found that %e and %D crash Vim.
> >
> > This seems to just be due to bad strftime() error-handling
> > characteristics. '%0', '%.', and '%-' also crash it (probably any
> > invalid format specifiers).
> >
> > Full list of valid format specifiers for the strftime provided by Visual
> > Studio 2010 is at [2], if it's useful for debugging.
>
> It is by design in the recent VC CRT libraries (VS2005 onwards?) Any
> unsupported format specifier will result in a crash. On Windows, or at
> least builds that use recent VC CRT libraries, VIM needs to validate the
> format string that it only contains supported format specifiers. I'm
> guessing mingw is using older versions of the Windows CRT or has its own
> version.
And what is the function provided to check for a valid format?
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