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From: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Subject: Re: scanf buffer overflow; support 'hh' conversion specifier [PATCH]
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:19:34 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <3DF86A50.69057DB1@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Dec 12, 2002 10:52:00 AM
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Richard said:
> After thinking about it, hX will only produce a bug, if you think X should
> behave as C99 describes. If X is a Borland compatibility thing, then it's may
> be working OK. (Although I'm not sure why X is special-cased in the handling
> of Borland-compatible type conversions.) My copy of K&R doesn't list X in the
> table of type conversions, so I'm guessing X is a C99-thing.

It's not in C89 for *scanf(). But it's there for *printf(). We _are_
talking about *scanf(), right (buffer overflow)?


Right,

						MartinS