Re: Bug in Newlib's sscanf implementation

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Mar  9 16:13, Niklas Eklund wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> In sscanf with following buffer to parse "0x0000" and format string "%x
> %n", does not return expected result.
> 
> It is the value given by %n variable that is off-by-one (value is 5 instead
> of expected 6). The value given by %x is correctly set to zero.
> 
> If the buffer to parse is any other value than just zeros, or without
> leading 0x, it gives expected results. I think it might be the
> NDIGITS/NZDIGITS/NNZDIGITS toggling that might throw of the increasing of
> number of characters parsed. Or it is some final criteria that kicks in if
> 0x has been found and then only zeros.

Do you have a patch or at least a self-contained testcase?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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