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Re: Dangerous glibc byte/wide stream interactions
- To: Henry Spencer <henry at spsystems dot net>
- Subject: Re: Dangerous glibc byte/wide stream interactions
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 Sep 2000 17:19:18 -0700
- Cc: linux-utf8 at nl dot linux dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000924182032.10986A-100000@spsystems.net>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> The debate should center on whether there is *too much* overhead involved,
No, the debate is over. There is internal checking code which can be
compiled out. But there will be no code which prevents stupid users
from hurting themselves. If you want this kind of thing finally start
working on a debugging version of the library. This is planned but
until then you won't get any such support.
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