From: Tim Tassonis <stuff@decentral.ch>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: printf doesn't respect locale
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:44:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6be1fc8-face-0262-ef00-fd427bd52155@decentral.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910163143.GI22009@port70.net>
On 9/10/19 6:31 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org> [2019-09-10 17:00:49 +0100]:
>> I'm also not a fan of this behavior, I actually stumbled across this
>> when tracking
>> down a bug the different radix usage caused.
>
> i'm interested in how this can cause a bug in correct software.
Depends on your definition of "correct software". I'd say correct
software has no bugs at all...
Anyway, I can think of cases where the usually correct assumption is
made that the floating point delimiter is one byte, while some locales
maybe need two bytes. This could then of course lead to memory
corruption when using sprintf with a too small buffer.
Bye
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-10 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 16:31 Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:39 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:51 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-09 17:55 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-09 17:54 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 16:00 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-10 16:31 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 16:44 ` Tim Tassonis [this message]
2019-09-10 17:30 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 17:10 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-10 17:33 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 18:43 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 21:55 ` A. Wilcox
2019-09-11 10:01 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-11 10:07 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 11:44 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 12:53 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 13:47 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 15:15 ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 15:38 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 18:08 ` Jens Gustedt
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