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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 05:38:05 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Daily reports: Friday - cont
Hi Luka,
I just want to let you know that I appreciate your frequent reports.
I intend to take a look at your latest code during the weekend.
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 03:12:00AM +0200, Luka Mar??eti?? wrote:
> I apologize for the delay, I thought I had a bug in my code (the new
> String.c to be precise), but it turns out gdb was playing tricks on me.
> I've learned that it doesn't (necessarily) regard "\0<char><char><char>"
> as NULL, and three <char>s, but sometimes as some other char (like '.'
> and '='). You probably know why (octal char representation), I didn't.
This applies to C sources as well, and to some other languages. My
approach to dealing with it is generally to split/concatenate the string
right after the escape sequence, like this:
const char *k = "\xff\xa3" "34" "\xff\xff\xff\xa3" "345";
(from some code I wrote yesterday).
I think this one was actually OK without the splits, but better safe
than sorry - and like you say with octals the problem is more real.
Alexander
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