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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fix the sscanf usage in etags
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:47:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DAD674.7030407@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k65ho38v.fsf@zip.com.au>



Kevin Ryde skrev:
> Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org> writes:
>> The problem I found was that etags crashed when `#line 123 L"wide"' was given
>> as input. If the crashing can be suppressed, it is enough.
> 
> That's the only bad case, you don't have some strange libc that
> incorrectly counts %n?
> 
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>> 	  if (sscanf (lbp->buffer, "#line %d %n\"", &lno, &start) >= 1
>> 	      && lbp->buffer[start] == '"')
> 
> I think that still uses start uninitialized on say "#line 123 ".

No, in that case start will be 10. If the %d matches, sscanf will return 1 and 
in that case %n must match (whitespace is optional).

	Jan D.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07  3:38 fix the sscanf usage in etags Masatake YAMATO
2006-08-08  9:35 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-09  0:06 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-09  6:57   ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-09  7:57     ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-08-09 13:20       ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-09 14:10         ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-08-10  0:15     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-10  6:47       ` Jan Djärv [this message]

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