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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Bugs in strftime
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 12:30:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180206173020.GA1220@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ab1a8cb-1df0-4345-e16e-d596bfd4ad82@gmx.de>

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 05:10:02PM +0100, Dennis Wölfing wrote:
> On 05.02.2018 18:51, Rich Felker wrote:
> > I've actually discussed this before, being doubtful about whether the
> > current behavior was correct, but was unable to find any authoritative
> > interpretation. Do you know if there is one?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know of any.

OK, I guess the examples will have to suffice.

> I don't think that the standard explicitly defines what "field" means.
> However the standard also uses the term "minimum field width".
> It would be weird to interpret the text in a way that "minimum field
> width" refers to a different "field" than "the field being produced".
> 
> > Thanks again for doing this testing and reporting it. Would you be
> > interested in helping get these tests into our libc-test package?
> 
> Sure. What do I need to do for that?

The repo is here:

http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=libc-test

Patches for it are generally just sent to this list. Szabolcs Nagy is
the maintainer.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 17:07 Dennis Wölfing
2018-02-05 17:51 ` Rich Felker
2018-02-06 16:10   ` Dennis Wölfing
2018-02-06 17:30     ` Rich Felker [this message]
2018-02-06 17:46   ` Rich Felker
2018-02-06 20:24     ` Dennis Wölfing
2018-02-07 20:35       ` Szabolcs Nagy

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