• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (28/28) Jan 20 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15586

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15586

          Issue ID: 15586
           Summary: std.utf.toUTF8() segfaults when fed an invalid dchar
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: thomas.bockman gmail.com

Repro:

void main()
{
    import std.utf : toUTF8;
    char[4] buf = void;
    auto b = toUTF8(buf, cast(dchar)0x110000);

    import std.stdio;
    writeln(b);
}

Cause:

toUTF8() asserts that invalid dchars just *don't exist*. It then proceeds to
return *nothing at all* when fed one, which violates memory safety.

Because of https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15585 the compiler may
optimize away attempts to fix this entirely.

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