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From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: u-igbb@aetey.se
Subject: Re: memmem() - is it correct?
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:19:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140409131903.70876825@vostro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140409100840.GD21662@example.net>

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:08:40 +0200
u-igbb@aetey.se wrote:

> A test case adapted from elsewhere:
> ----
> #include <string.h>
> 
> main(){
>   const char *haystack = "abcde";
>   return(!memmem(haystack, 4, "cde", 3));
> }
> ----
> 
> returns 1 (as I would expect it to) if linked against uclibc
> returns 0                           if linked against musl
> (on ia32)
> 
> Any comments?

musl looks correct to me. "abcde" is five bytes. You test for 4 bytes
so it's infact searching from haystack equivalent of "abcd".

I'd say uclibc is off-by-one, and broken.

- Timo


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-09 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 10:08 u-igbb
2014-04-09 10:19 ` Timo Teras [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20140409104925.GE21662@example.net>
2014-04-09 12:51     ` Timo Teras
2014-04-09 12:54       ` Timo Teras
2014-04-10  1:15         ` Rich Felker
2014-04-09 12:14 u-igbb

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