On 18/08/2010 22:18, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
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?
;-) Forcing a crash on an unsuspecting development team is most likely
preferable to providing a security hole through silent unknown
behaviour. A quick google shows a number of major FOSS projects falling
over this issue.
Mike
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