Re: luaO_pushvfstring reads past end of format string on trailing %

Roberto Ierusalimschy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Thanks, but I was not referring to that. I meant, since "%#", as "%$"
> and all other invalid sequences just "keep unknown format in the
> result", do the same for "%\0". Null inserting is not common enough
> for the ( perceived by my ) target of this function to even suggest
> "%0" for it, the %c combo is fine.

The manual says this:

    Every occurrence of % in the string fmt must form a valid conversion
    specifier.

So, this 'just "keep unknown format in the result"' is undocumented
behavior. As you said, in C there are endless ways to shoot your own
foot, for instance by calling 'lua_pushfstring(L, "%s", 42l)'.
A '%' in the end of the format string is just one more way.

-- Roberto

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