Re: Bash printf should diagnose integer overflow

[alex xmb sw ratchev]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 15:40 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

post it to the html page too
good sentense

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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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