[newlib-cygwin/main] fix strverscmp comparison of digit sequence with non-digits

Corinna Vinschen corinna@sourceware.org
Mon Jan 8 16:01:51 GMT 2024


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=9a863f713af24a3b18c165c640c936a4c0b707ea

commit 9a863f713af24a3b18c165c640c936a4c0b707ea
Author:     Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 8 06:56:21 2024 -0700
Commit:     Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
CommitDate: Mon Jan 8 17:01:25 2024 +0100

    fix strverscmp comparison of digit sequence with non-digits
    
    From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
    Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 22:17:55 -0500
    
    the rule that longest digit sequence not beginning with a zero is
    greater only applies when both sequences being compared are
    non-degenerate. this is spelled out explicitly in the man page, which
    may be deemed authoritative for this nonstandard function: "If one or
    both of these is empty, then return what strcmp(3) would have
    returned..."
    
    we were wrongly treating any sequence of digits not beginning with a
    zero as greater than a non-digit in the other string.
    
    Signed-off-by: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>

Diff:
---
 newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c b/newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c
index 04aa7213ad98..0117421c9e93 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/string/strverscmp.c
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ int strverscmp(const char *l0, const char *r0)
 		else if (c!='0') z=0;
 	}
 
-	if (l[dp]!='0' && r[dp]!='0') {
-		/* If we're not looking at a digit sequence that began
-		 * with a zero, longest digit string is greater. */
+	if (l[dp]-'1'<9U && r[dp]-'1'<9U) {
+		/* If we're looking at non-degenerate digit sequences starting
+		 * with nonzero digits, longest digit string is greater. */
 		for (j=i; isdigit(l[j]); j++)
 			if (!isdigit(r[j])) return 1;
 		if (isdigit(r[j])) return -1;


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