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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-10-24 23:20:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-10-24 23:20:10 +0000 |
| commit | eb1050c4face6d4b888d24e238603c6cab701135 (patch) | |
| tree | d31e2453a91ab75c53f0a82ba4e835937018a089 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | f4c556ac9d141bf86702c68d95acad2db5ec6874 (diff) | |
| download | perl-eb1050c4face6d4b888d24e238603c6cab701135.tar.gz | |
remove inconsistent tainting behavior of sprintf("%e",...)
(all bets are off is "C" locale is compromised)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4449
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 42c5d2bdd5..f8efd7e428 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4195,13 +4195,6 @@ If C<use locale> is in effect, the character used for the decimal point in formatted real numbers is affected by the LC_NUMERIC locale. See L<perllocale>. -To cope with broken systems that allow the standard locales to be -overridden by malicious users, the return value may be tainted -if any of the floating point formats are used and the conversion -yields something that doesn't look like a normal C-locale floating -point number. This happens regardless of whether C<use locale> is -in effect or not. - If Perl understands "quads" (64-bit integers) (this requires either that the platform natively supports quads or that Perl has been specifically compiled to support quads), the characters |