The following reply was made to PR lib/34632; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, lib-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/34632: isalpha() and possibly other ctype functions segfault
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:05:12 -0400

 On Sep 26,  8:15pm, tony2001@php.net (tony2001@php.net) wrote:
 -- Subject: lib/34632: isalpha() and possibly other ctype functions segfault
 
 | >Number:         34632
 | >Category:       lib
 | >Synopsis:       isalpha() and possibly other ctype functions segfault
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    lib-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 26 20:15:00 +0000 2006
 | >Originator:     Antony Dovgal
 | >Release:        Netbsd 3.0.1 AMD64
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | >Description:
 | (gdb) p word[w_idx]
 | $1 = -61 'Ã'
 | (gdb) p toupper(word[w_idx])
 | $2 = 28518
 | (gdb) p isalpha(toupper(word[w_idx]))
 | 
 | Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 | 0x0000000200e4eced in isalpha () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
 | 
 | See some more details here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38961
 | 
 | Even though the documentation says "the result is undefined when the argument is not EOF or unsigned char", the segfault is definitely not what I would expect to get in this case.
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | I guess it should be easy to reproduce with this code:
 | #include <ctype.h>
 | 
 | int main() {
 |   isalpha(28518);
 |   return 0;
 | }
 
 This is not a bug. Undefined includes "segmentation fault". This is why
 we cast to (unsigned char) in our sources.
 
 christos