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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2010-08-30 12:08:47 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2010-08-30 15:04:21 -0600 |
| commit | 5f6cb7045448cf3d06bf7e1881406401b2084279 (patch) | |
| tree | 513bd91f4dc8b0541cc9342d9c7b263889ce3fbc | |
| parent | 6262484d69f374aad1dea0abfb33d248fafa8dc9 (diff) | |
| download | m4-5f6cb7045448cf3d06bf7e1881406401b2084279.tar.gz | |
Test previous commit.
* doc/m4.texinfo (Format): Add a test.
* NEWS: Document the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit edf2d2a2af08b0d4af530150c1c7b504c803a637)
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 1 | ||||
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2010-08-30 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> + + Test previous commit. + * doc/m4.texinfo (Format): Add a test. + * NEWS: Document the fix. + * THANKS: Update. + 2010-08-30 Carlo Teubner <carlo.teubner@gmail.com> (tiny change) Avoid a crash with bad format string. @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ contains the following beta features that were deemed worth deferring until * Noteworthy changes in release 1.4.15 (2010-08-??) [stable] +** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9b where the format builtin could + crash on an invalid format string. + ** Fix compilation against newer glibc, and on AIX 7.1BETA. ** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib. @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Bob Badour bob@badour.net Bob Proulx bob@proulx.com Brendan Kehoe brendan@cygnus.com Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org +Carlo Teubner carlo.teubner@gmail.com Cesar Strauss cestrauss@gmail.com Chris McGuire chris@wso.net Chris Penev xpenev@gmail.com diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index 081d5ce7..91b8e007 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -6902,6 +6902,18 @@ format(`%.1f', `2a') @result{}2.0 @end example +@ignore +@comment Expose a crash with a bad format string fixed in 1.4.15. +@comment Unfortuntely, 8-bit bytes are hard to check for; but the +@comment exit status is enough to sniff the crash in broken versions. + +@comment xerr: ignore +@example +ifelse(format(`%'format(`%c', `128'))) +@result{} +@end example +@end ignore + @node Arithmetic @chapter Macros for doing arithmetic |