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    Problem Report Number 0178
    Submitter's Classification Test Suite problem
    State Resolved
    Resolution Test Suite Deficiency (TSD)
    Problem Resolution ID TSD.X.0178
    Raised 1994-08-01 08:00
    Updated 2003-03-13 08:00
    Published 1994-08-15 08:00
    Product Standard Internationalised System Calls and Libraries (XPG4)
    Certification Program The Open Brand certification program
    Test Suite VSX4 version 4.3.4
    Test Identification ANSI.os/string/strcat 1
    Problem Summary TSD4.178 The tests in the charhandle test area assume that the host system is ASCII-based but there is nothing in ANSI or POSIX that requires this to be so. The tests take advantage of the fact in ASCII, the l...
    Problem Text
    The tests in the charhandle test area assume that the host system is
    ASCII-based but there is nothing in ANSI or POSIX that requires this to
    be so. The tests take advantage of the fact in ASCII, the lower case
    alphabet is contiguous and ranges from 0x61 to 0x7a. In EBCDIC, the
    lower case alphabet is found in three discontiguous sections: 0x81 to
    0x89, 0x91 to 0x99, and 0xa2 to 0xa9. The following tests fail on an
    EBCDIC system because the alphabet is not contiguous:

    ANSI.os/string/Mstrcat/T.strcat 1,
    ANSI.os/string/strcat/T.strcat 1,
    ANSI.os/string/strncat/T.strncat 1, and
    ANSI.os/string/strpbrk/T.strpbrk 1.

    Note: This request was original submited as vsx.008 but it was refused
    because it incorrectly identified strcspn 1 as a test in error. This
    test should have been attributed to the request originally submited
    as vsx.007 which has been replaced by vsx.009. The incorrect reference
    has been removed from this request and added to vsx.009.
    Test Output
    /tset/ANSI.os/string/strcat/T.strcat 1 Failed
    Test Description:
    strcat() appends a copy of string s2 to the end of string s1 stopping
    after the null character has been copied and returns s1. The initial
    character of s2 overwrites the null character at the end of s1.
    Posix Ref: Component STRCAT Assertion 8.1-04(A)
    Test Strategy:
    VERIFY second string is concatenated onto first string with correct
    NULL termination. Strings include characters with 8 bit settings.
    Test Information:
    strcat did did not copy data correctly
    expected result : abcdefghiM-^VM-$M-sM-/M-.M-EM-jklmnopqrM-^W
    actual result : abcdefghiM-^VM-$M-smnopqrM-^WM-^GM-NM-^SM-qM-~M-H~

    Review Information

    Review Type TSMA Review
    Start Date null
    Completed null
    Status Complete
    Review Recommendation No Resolution Given
    Review Response
    This is accepted as a fault in the test suite and it is recommended that
    a waiver is granted on the grounds of a test suite deficiency.

    Review Type SA Review
    Start Date null
    Completed null
    Status Complete
    Review Resolution Test Suite Deficiency (TSD)
    Review Conclusion
    This is an agreed Test Suite Deficiency.

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