Michal> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:25:38AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
Roland> The below patch fixes two bugs in lib/vsprintf.c's
Roland> implementation of vsscanf().
Michal> If we are looking at these things I have some gnawing
Michal> suspicions that a constant 0xFFFFFFFFUL at line 489 of
Michal> lib/vsprintf.c in this function:
int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
return vsnprintf(buf, 0xFFFFFFFFUL, fmt, args);
}
Michal> was really meant to be (size_t)(-1). It is not the same
Michal> if a platform is not 32 bits. Roland, what do you think?
You are probably right, although I can't see it making much practical
difference (unlike the bugs I fixed, which actually bit me :) Still,
it wouldn't hurt to fix it.
R.
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