[ruby-core:112891] [Ruby master Bug#19459] Is `length` of `IO::Buffer#read` required or optional?

Issue #19459 has been updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams).


Thanks!

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Bug #19459: Is `length` of `IO::Buffer#read` required or optional?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19459#change-102407

* Author: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
* Backport: 2.7: DONTNEED, 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONE
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io_buffer.c has warnings.

http://ci.rvm.jp/logfiles/brlog.trunk-asserts.20230222-105209#L956

```
/tmp/ruby/src/trunk-asserts/io_buffer.c: In function 'io_buffer_read':
/tmp/ruby/src/trunk-asserts/io_buffer.c:2468:12: warning: 'length' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 2468 |     return rb_io_buffer_read(self, io, length, offset);
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/ruby/src/trunk-asserts/io_buffer.c: In function 'io_buffer_write':
/tmp/ruby/src/trunk-asserts/io_buffer.c:2681:12: warning: 'length' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
 2681 |     return rb_io_buffer_write(self, io, length, offset);
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/ruby/src/trunk-asserts/io_buffer.c: At top level:
cc1: note: unrecognized command-line option '-Wno-self-assign' may have been intended to silence earlier diagnostics
cc1: note: unrecognized command-line option '-Wno-parentheses-equality' may have been intended to silence earlier diagnostics
cc1: note: unrecognized command-line option '-Wno-constant-logical-operand' may have been intended to silence earlier diagnostics
```

As the `argc` is checked already as `rb_check_arity(argc, 2, 3)`, `length` is a required argument.
This means the condition `if (argc >= 2)` is always true and unnecessary, then `length` is initialized.

However, in the rdoc of `io_buffer_read`, which has been added at 3.2, states `length` is optional.
```c
 *  call-seq: read(io, [length, [offset]]) -> read length or -errno
 *
 *  Read at most +length+ bytes from +io+ into the buffer, starting at
 *  +offset+. If an error occurs, return <tt>-errno</tt>.
 *
 *  If +length+ is not given, read until the end of the buffer.
```

Which is correct?




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