[I18n-sig] UTF-8 decoder in CVS still buggy

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> The UTF-8 decoder is still buggy (i.e. it doesn't pass Markus Kuhn's
> stress test), mainly due to the following construct:
> 
>     #define UTF8_ERROR(details)  do {                       \
>         if (utf8_decoding_error(&s, &p, errors, details))   \
>             goto onError;                                   \
>         continue;                                           \
>     } while (0)
> 
> (The "continue" statement is supposed to exit from the outer loop,
> but of course, it doesn't.  Indeed, this is a marvelous example of
> the dangers of the C programming language and especially of the C
> preprocessor.)
> 
> I've already sent a patch quite some time ago, but nobody bothered to
> apply it to the CVS tree.

Sorry about that.

> Shall I resend it or shall I assume that
> the Python developers don't care about this problem?

I've checked in a fix which should remedy the problem.
Could you run the stress test using the fixed
interpreter ?

BTW, how much code is the stress test ? Maybe we should add
some of it to the test suite.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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