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Hector Rodriguez
Date:
August 22, 2013 22:56
Subject:
[perl #119435] Re: strftime outputs wrong with format '%p' under certain locales
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rt-3.6.HEAD-1873-1377211691-97.119435-75-0@perl.org
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wena, colaborando al camello

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2013/8/22 Felipe Sologuren <fsologuren@newtenberg.com>

> This is a bug report for perl from fsologuren@newtenberg.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.2.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> strftime function returns a wrong output when I used locale 'es_CL' for
> LC_TIME variable and the format string '%p'.
> In contrast with command `date`, that returns an empty string with that
> locale environment variable, strftime returns '%p' itself:
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
> $ perl -MPOSIX -e "POSIX::setlocale( LC_TIME, 'es_CL' ); my @t =
> CORE::localtime();print \"'\".POSIX::strftime(\"%p\",@t).\"'\n\";"
> '%p'
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
> But if the format contains an aditional character that implies non-empty
> string output, the response is correct:
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
> $ perl -MPOSIX -e "POSIX::setlocale( LC_TIME, 'es_CL' ); my @t =
> CORE::localtime();print \"'\".POSIX::strftime(\" %p\",@t).\"'\n\";"
> ' '
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
> Alternatively, with the C locale, the behaviour is as espected, probably
> because the output is non-empty:
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
> $ perl -MPOSIX -e "POSIX::setlocale( LC_TIME, 'C' ); my @t =
> CORE::localtime();print \"'\".POSIX::strftime(\" %p\",@t).\"'\n\";"
> ' '
> --------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
> I tested strftime with the C code provided by `man 3 strftime` and the
> output of the input format '%p' is '', as espected, So I believe that the
> problem is pure perl.
>
> I tested with perl 5.10.1 from debian stable and the problem is the same.
> I tested with perl 5.19.3 (perlbrew over debian) and the problem persist.
> I tested with perl 5.6.2 (perlbrew over debian) and the behaviour was
> correct; strftime returns empty string with LC_TIME=es_CL.
>
> I couldn't figured out where is the root of the problem because the fact
> that the output string equals the format string is strange, but I suspect
> about the wrapper Perl_my_strftime because it didn't manage well this case
> where the returned value of C strftime is zero length, but the format
> string is non-empty. On the other hand, the actual asignment to ST(0)
> changed in commit b3c85772f7a16b79e679c78c9638a7afa4856432 when the wrapper
> was moved from POSIX.xs to util.c and I didn't understand low level perl
> code very well.
>
> Thank you for your great work.
> Perl rules.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> Flags:
>     category=library
>     severity=low
>     module=POSIX
> ---
> Site configuration information for perl 5.14.2:
>
> Configured by Debian Project at Wed Apr 10 16:58:16 UTC 2013.
>
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration:
>
>   Platform:
>     osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-4-amd64,
> archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
>     uname='linux madeleine 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.2.39-2 x86_64
> gnulinux '
>     config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
> -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Dldflags= -Wl,-z,relro
> -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-z,relro -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC
> -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.14
> -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.14 -Dvendorprefix=/usr
> -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5
> -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
> -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
> -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1
> -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Duse64bitint -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl
> -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm
> -Ui_libutil -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib
> -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.14.2 -des'
>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
>     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
>     use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
>     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN
> -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
>     optimize='-O2 -g',
>     cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector
> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
>     ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.2', gccosandvers=''
>     intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
>     ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
> lseeksize=8
>     alignbytes=8, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
>     libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
>     perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
>     libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.14.2
>     gnulibc_version='2.13'
>   Dynamic Linking:
>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
>     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib
> -fstack-protector'
>
> Locally applied patches:
>
>
> ---
> @INC for perl 5.14.2:
>     /etc/perl
>     /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
>     /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
>     /usr/lib/perl5
>     /usr/share/perl5
>     /usr/lib/perl/5.14
>     /usr/share/perl/5.14
>     /usr/local/lib/site_perl
>     .
>
> ---
> Environment for perl 5.14.2:
>     HOME=/home/felipe
>     LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
>     LANGUAGE=es_CL.UTF-8
>     LC_ALL=es_CL.UTF-8
>     LC_CTYPE=es_CL.UTF-8
>     LC_MESSAGES=es_CL.UTF-8
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
>     LOGDIR (unset)
>
> PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin:/home/felipe/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/xpn/xmark/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/xpn/xmark/bin
>     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
>     SHELL=/bin/bash
>
>


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]-[éctor Rodríguez S.
Ingeniería y desarrollo de software
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