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Re: readstring() bug


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: readstring() bug
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:39:51 -0400

%% Markus Mauhart <address@hidden> writes:

  mm> 1) first the minor buggy

  mm>   if (ebuf->bufnext > ebuf->bufstart + ebuf->size)
  mm>      return -1;

  mm> ... if ebuf->size is really malloc'ed size, then this must be ...

  mm>   if (ebuf->bufnext >= ebuf->bufstart + ebuf->size)
  mm>      return -1;

  mm> ... otherwise the later loop could read outside the allocated memory.

Yes, but this can never happen because each string _must_ be
nul-terminated, and the previous invocation before the last one would
set:

    ebuf->bufnext = p+1;

(where p points to the nul char) so ebuf->bufnext can never, really,
equal the last character in the string; it will always be one greater
than that.

However, it's not a good practice to rely on this "action at a distance"
so I'll make this change.

  mm> 2) the while loop, which AFAICS should iterate over all
  mm> EOL-terminated substrings until it finds an EOL that is not
  mm> escaped with odd-numbered backslash, counts all backslashes in
  mm> that substrings, instead of only the neighbours of EOL.

Yes, this is definitely not right.

  mm> 3) regardless of the mentioned wrong BS EOL detection, the loop
  mm> will never really loop, cause after the 1st run it still sits at
  mm> the 1st EOL, hence the 2nd run will find zero BS before the old
  mm> EOL and therefore break without reading anything new.

Yes, this is definitely wrong as well.

I'll fix these.

Strangely, no one has ever reported a problem that could be related to
these bugs.  I guess most people don't end up using multiline backslash
escaped strings with eval.  The only way to do it would be within a
define/endef because all other uses would have the backslash/newline
already removed before the eval gets the string.  I suppose most people
aren't using eval to handle entire rules.

  mm> And btw, the "return 0" looks a bit surprising too.

No, that's correct.  This function is only called during an eval and
nothing should be added to the line counter during an eval.

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