Subject: Re: lib/19638: isalpha (3) bug
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/03/2003 01:02:19
>...
> Feeding a routine in libc a perfectly valid int should NOT cause the
> libc routine to segfault. That is Bad.
>
>Sugested fix:
>
>Add this c-equivalent line to isalpha(c):
>
> if( c < 0 || c > 0xff)return 0; // Cannot be alphabetic
> // this "if" could also be nicely encoded as a bit test against 0xffffff00
>
> // Else, array bound is OK, index into our 256-byte array
>...
does this rudely prohibit unicode characters from being examined and
classified?
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