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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] Add base64 encoder/decoder
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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On 2011-08-26 17:47, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-08-26 17:23, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-08-26 17:21, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 26 August 2011 15:48, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
>>>> Will be used by QBuffer.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to use the glib base64 encode/decode routines instead
>>> of rolling our own here?
>>
>> Yeah, times are changing. Need to check what's there and how to use it.
> 
> Requires glib >= 2.12, we are currently at >= 2.0, right? Would it be OK
> to raise the entry barrier?
> 
> I'm also still looking for error handling of g_base64_decode. I guess
> one is supposed to compare returned length against some expected value.
> Well, it's glib...

The length check is not sufficient, and glib's decoder fails on my
invalid input string tests.

I think proper error detection in base64 inputs is a worthwhile feature
that glib lacks. So I'll stick with roll-our-own (actually, it's
Mozilla's version).

Jan

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