Re: %.1s format with vasnprintf reads more than one byte from argument

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 2/26/2009 6:13 PM:
> 
> I removed the part of the test that should normally always fail:
>     if (sprintf (buf, "%ls", wstring) != -1)
>       return 2;
> because it does not fail on any known platform.

Actually, it DOES fail, on cygwin 1.7.0.  But that is due to a bug in
cygwin wctomb[1], which will hopefully be fixed soon, and not to sprintf
accessing too far in the wchar_t array, as the %.2ls test passes.

[1]http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00656.html

> Then refactored the code
> to keep different tests separate. Added comments and updated the doc:

Thanks.  I knew my patch was only a starter.

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