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From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>
Cc: jamie@shareable.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	"'Morten Welinder'" <terra@gnome.org>, Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com>
Subject: Re: signed vs unsigned pointer warning
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041008091714.A1695@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041008130623.9516.4@llama.elixent.com>; from nick@ing-simmons.net on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:06:23PM +0100

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:06:23PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >This is a real typical bug.  Just recently a bug was found in
> >curl-library, quite a popular little library, which calls
> >isspace(char).  The bug was missed for a long time, as it is only
> >triggered with characters with the MSB set, which do not occur often
> >in HTTP headers.
> 
> I am reasnably sure that on old SunOS4 systems passing signed char 
> to isxxx() was normal and worked. The lookup tables where defined
> in such a way that 128 or so entries before the normal table replicated 
> the 2nd half.

Why can't an implementation define isxxx(c) to return something like
    table_lookup[(unsigned)(c)]
?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-08 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 16:43 Morten Welinder
2004-09-22 17:17 ` Paul Koning
2004-09-22 17:27   ` Morten Welinder
2004-09-22 17:49     ` Dave Korn
2004-09-22 17:20 ` Dave Korn
2004-09-23  1:31   ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-23 12:29     ` Dave Korn
2004-09-23 18:57       ` Joe Buck
2004-09-23 19:38         ` Dave Korn
2004-09-27  2:04   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-10-08 13:29     ` Nick Ing-Simmons
2004-10-08 13:32       ` Dave Korn
2004-10-08 17:20       ` Joe Buck [this message]
2004-10-08 17:28         ` Paul Jarc
2004-10-08 17:59           ` Joe Buck
2004-10-08 18:15             ` Dave Korn
2004-10-08 18:22               ` Joe Buck
2004-10-08 18:24             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-10-08 19:57             ` Paul Jarc
2004-10-09  7:05               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-10-09  8:48                 ` Paul Jarc
2004-10-11 16:34                   ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-10-08 18:57         ` Morten Welinder
2004-10-08 20:59           ` Matthias B.
2004-10-08 22:34             ` Paul Koning
2004-10-10  2:03               ` Matthias B.
2004-10-09  1:39             ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-11  0:11           ` Kai Henningsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-21 20:52 Richard Henderson
2004-09-21 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-22 14:35   ` Dave Korn

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