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Re: Preparsing sprintf format strings
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:40:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: Preparsing sprintf format strings
- References: <20071011235758.00BB773CF1@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) writes:
> The entire parsing of the format string is affected by the multi-byte
> character encoding. I don't know how GCC would be able tell that a byte
> with the same value as '%' in the middle of string would actually be
> interpreted as '%' character rather than a part of an extended multibyte
> character. This can easily happen with the ISO 2022-JP encoding.
The compiler is supposed to know the encoding of the strings.
Andreas.
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