Bug in scanf &Co
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Jun 9 21:37:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a bug in the newlib scanf family implementation (actually, in
> __svfscanf_r in libc/stdio/vfscanf.c) that causes it to read strings of
> the form 0x0+ incorrectly. Attached is a testcase that demonstrates the
> bug on Cygwin. I suspect the following change:
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib-cvs/2004-q2/msg00008.html>.
> HTH,
> Igor
Oops, sorry for the noise. This'll teach me to search the mailing list
before posting. *blush*
This was already reported in
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2004/msg00262.html> -- thanks to Jeff
Johnston for the patch.
Igor
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