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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:31:46AM +0100, LAUN Wolfgang wrote:
> Festina lente ;-)
Nil illegitimo carborundum?
> Yes, it fixes the assertion failure and all that may come from an
> insufficient allocation. But note that the eval does not return an
> error, so the format can be run. Observe:
[snip]
> A patch against toke.c (5.8.2) appears to fix this:
Thanks, applied as 22055.
> Finally I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that some NULL
> character *embedded* in the eval'ed string terminates format parsing
> prematurely (possibly because strchr is used in toke.c in scan_formline),
> resulting in an error ("Missing right curly or square bracket"). Any
> need to fix this, accepting embedded NULLs?
My personal take on this (not that I ever use formats!) is that since
<<EOF preserves \0's, I don't see why formats should discard them. Would
it be possible to extend your 'pass through control chars' patch to handle
nulls too?
Dave.
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