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From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 73307@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#73307: Fix ctype(3) usage
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:55:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZuluT_k-VE0LgTWK@exadelic.gatalith.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r09ibiq3.fsf@gnu.org>

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 02:52:20PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks.  However, I'm not sure this is the right fix, the function is
> defined with argument type of 'int'.  Paul, any comments?

That is exactly the problem.

If you pass a 'signed char' below -1, it gets converted to the same
integer value, also a negative number below -1, and you end up passing
an invalid argument to the function. The function is defined to only
accept EOF and non-negative values in the range of 'unsigned char'.

-1 is only special because that's usually the value of EOF.
 Thomas





  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-17 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-16 21:25 bug#73307: Fix ctype(3) usage Thomas Klausner
2024-09-17 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 11:55   ` Thomas Klausner [this message]
2024-09-18  0:05   ` Paul Eggert
2024-09-18  2:13     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18 11:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 15:18       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-18 15:35       ` Paul Eggert
2024-09-18 16:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 16:22           ` Paul Eggert

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