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Re: [Bug-gnulib] revised xvasprintf module
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] revised xvasprintf module |
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Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:33:31 +0200 |
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Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> But how should it be handled - with some xalloc-die
> equivalent? Or by truncating the result?
I would say, with a fatal error message, like xalloc-die.
Truncating a string is almost always the wrong thing to do. Especially
in the presence of multibyte characters, where you have to be careful not
to truncate in the middle of a character.
Bruno