From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] handle whitespace before %% in scanf
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:44:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170710164445.53ef621d@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2c7d1ce-1e0d-a504-f8be-313fe7385240@gmail.com>
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Hello Bartosz,
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:22:37 +0200 Bartosz Brachaczek
<b.brachaczek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > EXAMPLE 5 The call:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > /* ... */
> > int n, i;
> > n = sscanf("foo % bar 42", "foo%%bar%d", &i);
> >
> > will assign to 'n' the value 1 and to 'i' the value 42 because input
> > white-space characters are skipped for both the '%' and 'd'
> > conversion specifiers.
>
> Now, the code in the example is clearly broken, as either the format
> string should be "foo%% bar%d" or the input string should be
> "foo %bar 42", but the explanation does imply that '%%' consumes
> whitespace.
Yes, I have noted this as an editorial fix for C17
Thanks for reporting
Jens
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-10 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-09 21:00 Bartosz Brachaczek
2017-07-10 2:00 ` Rich Felker
2017-07-10 8:22 ` Bartosz Brachaczek
2017-07-10 14:44 ` Jens Gustedt [this message]
2017-07-10 20:59 ` Rich Felker
2017-09-04 22:00 ` Bartosz Brachaczek
2017-09-04 22:57 ` Jens Gustedt
2017-07-11 1:20 ` Rich Felker
2017-09-04 20:59 ` Rich Felker
2017-09-04 21:56 ` Bartosz Brachaczek
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