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From: Ron Yorston <rmy@frippery.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com, arsnyder16@gmail.com
Cc: quinq@fifth.space, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] print does not support variable width plus padding
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:22:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <61bb217a.wksjpcsr1v0gBuCq%rmy@frippery.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211215212126.GK7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>FWIW I suspect the problem is that Busybox is not recognizing the 0
>character as a flag (which it is, in the printf grammar) and thinks
>it's the leading character of a width, making the * specifier for
>width invalid (since a width was already seen).

Quite so.  0 was missing from the list of valid flag characters.
Moreover only one flag character was being processed so the format
'%0 d', for example, was also considered invalid.

I've submitted a patch to BusyBox.

Ron

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-16 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-14 15:22 Andrew Snyder
2021-12-14 16:03 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-12-14 16:09   ` Andrew Snyder
2021-12-14 16:10     ` Andrew Snyder
2021-12-14 16:50       ` Rich Felker
2021-12-14 17:05         ` Andrew Snyder
2021-12-15 18:09       ` Quentin Rameau
2021-12-15 18:37         ` Andrew Snyder
2021-12-15 21:21           ` Rich Felker
2021-12-15 21:40             ` enh
2021-12-15 21:51               ` Andrew Snyder
2021-12-16 11:22             ` Ron Yorston [this message]

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