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[Dan White]

On 04/27/17 16:57 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>The detox program doesn't work quite right, so I'm trying to learn C to
>fix it, and part of the code looks like a bug to me.
>
>Any recommendations for appropriate mailing list to post questions?

Stack Overflow.

>E.g. debian-devel or perhaps something lower volume?
>
>( This particular example:
>
> repo: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/detox.git
>
> file: src/clean_string.c
>
> line: from 545:
>    if (new_value == -1) {
>       continue;
>    }
>
> This is dealing with malformed unicode chars in UTF-8, and I'm pretty
> sure the above should actually be:
>    if (new_value == -1) {
>       input_walk++;
>       continue;
>    }

I believe the input_walk++ is on line 528, and the continue on 546 is an
edge case for a scenario where *input_walk should point to the end of
string or is UTF_8 encoded, but is not.

Try emailing the author which is listed at the top of the file for help.

> otherwise, if the method actually gets a malformed UTF-8 encoded unicode
> character, it looks like it will loop endlessly.
>
> The bug I'm looking for is a different bug again...
>)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Z

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Dan White