Re: [PATCH] svfwscanf: Simplify _sungetwc_r to eliminate apparent buffer overflow

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Please don't CC me, I'm reading the ML all the time.  Thanks]

On Aug 19 08:17, Keith Packard wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Given all chars are sizeof(wchar_t), how's the buffer ever going to
> > become unaligned?
> 
> It places the wchar_t at the end of _ubuf, which is 3 bytes long, making
> it unaligned:
> 
>   fp->_p = &fp->_ubuf[sizeof (fp->_ubuf) - sizeof (wchar_t)];

Oops, right.


Thanks,
Corinna
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