GNU bug report logs - #32236
df header corrupted with LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 on macOS

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Message #64 received at 32236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125 <at> gmail.com>, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>,
 Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>, 32236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32236: df header corrupted with LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 on macOS
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:05:17 -0700

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Bruno Haible wrote:
> You can assume that mbrtowc returns
> 0 if and only if the multibyte sequence is a NUL byte - but you had
> chosen srcend in such a way that this would not happen in the loop.

Thanks for the correction. I mistakenly thought that C allows multibyte 
encodings in which a null wide character's multibyte representation contains an 
all-bits-zero byte. I installed the attached to omit the unnecessary test.

[0001-df-omit-redundant-comparison.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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