Re: Bash printf should diagnose integer overflow

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/13/24 8:57 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Revised patchset attached. The first patch uses the fix you suggested; the 
> remaining patches are similar to what I sent earlier, except the last one 
> is simplified since it doesn't need to worry about inline width and 
> precision when printf will do the checking. These patches are relative to 
> Bash devel commit bf944fe91ffa97743ad86f6db6f3b84c78207a78 dated today at 
> 09:33:32 -0400.

Thanks for the patches. They introduce a number of regressions, some due
to the different overflow handling; several not. I urge everyone who
submits non-trivial patches to run the test suite (`make tests') on their
patched versions before sending them in.

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