Bug in libiconv?

[Charles Wilson]

On 1/28/2011 5:12 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Please CC the bug-gnu-libiconv mailing list when discussing possible
> bugs in GNU libiconv.

I hadn't intended on involving bug-gnu-libiconv until we had a working
fix, and a consensus here on @cygwin.  But, in any case, here is the
portion of Corinna's patch dealing with the iconv issues, stripped down
to the minimum necessary to correct the "problem".

As pointed out in the @cygwin thread, there are still some open
questions, which I had hoped to avoid by waiting until cygwin-1.7.8 was
released.

1) On cygwin-1.7.8, __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined, so this change will
   allow "correct" behavior *if compiled on cygwin-1.7.8*.

-#if __STDC_ISO_10646__ || ((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) &&
!defined __CYGWIN__)
+#if __STDC_ISO_10646__ || defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__

   But cygwin-1.7.8 isn't out yet. But with this change (and the "don't
include windows.h" change) then libiconv will still compile properly on
cygwin-1.5 -- which does not support wide chars, and does NOT define
__STDC_ISO_10646__.  However, it WON'T compile properly on cygwin-1.7.x
up to 1.7.7.

2) From cygwin-1.7.2 to cygwin-1.7.7, the following change could be
   used instead (there's an issue with 1.7.1 which doesn't bear
   exploration here):

-#if __STDC_ISO_10646__ || ((defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) &&
!defined __CYGWIN__)
+#if __STDC_ISO_10646__ || defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__ ||
defined __CYGWIN__

   But arguably, then it would break on "old" cygwin like 1.5.  Perhaps
this is ok, since 1.7 has been "out" for over a year, and maybe
bug-gnu-libiconv doesn't care about old,
unsupported-by-the-cygwin-project versions of cygwin.



In any case, the attached patch goes with option 1 above.  It is
completely orthogonal to, and independent of, the other "relocation"
patch, that I posted to the gnulib list.


2010-01-28  Corinna Vinschen  <...>

	Correct wchar handling on cygwin-1.7.x
	* lib/iconv.c (iconv_canonicalize): Allow __STDC_ISO_10646__
	to control, rather than using __CYGWIN__ to veto.
	* lib/iconv_open1.h: Ditto.
	* libcharset/lib/localcharset.c: Don't include windows.h if
	__CYGWIN__.
	(get_charset_aliases): Remove cygwin workaround; rely on generic
	implementation. Be sure to copy result of nl_langinfo into local
	buffer.

--
Chuck
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