Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
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Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org>
Date: Sun May 29 2005 - 23:11:20 CEST

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>> So quote the standard and show me wrong.
>
> I have copies of several character coding standards,
> and none of them assign negative values to code points.

Let's not pretend there's any confusion over what standard we
are talking about. You seemed to disagree when I wrote:

     Negative character codes are consistent with the C standard,
     and common systems, character codes may also be to large to
     fit in an unsigned char

If you check your standards, you will find I was right about
both parts.

> The C standard spec for fgetc is quite explicit about
> avoiding sign extension

Did I make some claim about fgetc?

-- 
--Bryan
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:39:08 2005