Reducing/removing sscanf use
Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <[email protected]>
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Hi, Generally, I believe using sscanf() for string parsing is a footgun so I have over a long time been working on reducing sscanf calls in curl. Now there is a graph showing this progress: https://curl.se/dashboard1.html#sscanf There is also this PR that can remove the last three sscanf() calls completely, by also introducing a set of string parsing functions: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/15692 When that is done, we can ban sscanf completely from being used to not accidentaly re-introduce any: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/15687 -- / daniel.haxx.se || https://rock-solid.curl.dev -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html