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Message-ID: <20191019011829.GZ16318@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:18:29 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ungetc: Cast to unsigned char before push
back to stream
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:11:49AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:35:45PM +0000, wangjianjian (C) wrote:
> > >From 4d24e6fee85ed878dc632dd29aabeb7c7454952e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Wang Jianjian <wangjianjian3@...wei.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:28:29 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ungetc: Cast to unsigned char before push back to stream
> >
> > Per Posix standard, casting to unsigned char is need before returning C
> > and pushing C back to stream.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Jianjian <wangjianjian3@...wei.com>
> > ---
> > src/stdio/ungetc.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/stdio/ungetc.c b/src/stdio/ungetc.c
> > index 180673a4..9733091a 100644
> > --- a/src/stdio/ungetc.c
> > +++ b/src/stdio/ungetc.c
> > @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ int ungetc(int c, FILE *f)
> > return EOF;
> > }
> >
> > - *--f->rpos = c;
> > + *--f->rpos = (unsigned char)c;
>
> This line does not change anything.
>
> > f->flags &= ~F_EOF;
> >
> > FUNLOCK(f);
> > - return c;
> > + return (unsigned char)c;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.17.1
>
> I believe this is actually a functional change, and a needed one for
> conformance (to ISO C, not specific to POSIX). The issue it seems to
> solve, which is what the change needs to be documented as, is the
> return value when a negative value not equal to EOF is passed to
> ungetc. In this case, the right value is already pushed back, but the
> function wrongly returns the original negative value passed in rather
> than the value that was pushed back.
Committing simplified version with just the second change. Thanks for
catching this.
Rich
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