Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I have wondered a few times, given the known issues with strxfrm, how is
> the use in selfuncs.c still ok. Has anyone taken a hard look at that?
On the one hand, we only need approximately-correct results in that
code. On the other, the result is fed to convert_string_to_scalar(),
which has a rather naive idea that it's dealing with ASCII text.
I've seen at least some strxfrm output that isn't even vaguely
textual-looking.
regards, tom lane
