* gettext API question - null pointer issue again @ 2019-06-27 4:18 Rich Felker [not found] ` <20190627041820.GA29896-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Rich Felker @ 2019-06-27 4:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Bruno Haible; +Cc: musl Could you answer a question about the gettext API that's come up again in the context of musl's implementation? The gettext manual documents that for the message key argument to these functions: "If the argument is NULL the result is undefined." https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Interface-to-gettext.html And it looks like you've treated passing a null argument as a bug in the past: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg36249.html It's come up again with GIMP doing it: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/12042 Should we continue to treat this as an application bug and ask the app maintainers to fix it when it's found? That's my leaning but I want to make sure we're still on the same page. Rich ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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* Re: gettext API question - null pointer issue again [not found] ` <20190627041820.GA29896-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org> @ 2019-06-27 7:58 ` Bruno Haible 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Bruno Haible @ 2019-06-27 7:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Rich Felker Cc: musl-ZwoEplunGu1jrUoiu81ncdBPR1lH4CV8, bug-gettext-mXXj517/zsQ [CCing bug-gettext] Rich Felker wrote in <https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2019/06/27/1>: > Could you answer a question about the gettext API that's come up again > in the context of musl's implementation? The gettext manual documents > that for the message key argument to these functions: > > "If the argument is NULL the result is undefined." > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Interface-to-gettext.html Likewise the LI18NUX 2000 specification (p. 39) says "The msgid argument is a null-terminated string." And likewise the LSB 3.0 https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-PDA/LSB-PDA/baselib-dgettext.html And likewise the Solaris implementation's documentation says: "The msgid argument is a null-terminated string." https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37843/gettext-3c.html#REFMAN3Agettext-3c > And it looks like you've treated passing a null argument as a bug in > the past: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org/msg36249.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-01/msg00046.html Yes. > It's come up again with GIMP doing it: > > https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/12042 > > Should we continue to treat this as an application bug and ask the app > maintainers to fix it when it's found? Yes. Bruno ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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