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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:31:07 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Jens Gustedt <Jens.Gustedt@...ia.fr>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [C23 printf 2/3] C23: implement the wN length specifiers
 for printf

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 09:41:03PM +0200, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> These are mandatory for C23 and concern all types for which the
> platform has `int_leastN_t` and `uint_leastN_t`. For musl these types
> always coincide with `intN_t` and `uintN_t` and are always present for
> N equal 8, 16, 32 and 64.
> 
> They can be added for general use since all lowercase letters were
> previously reserved.
> 
> Nevertheless, users that use these modifiers will see a lot of
> warnings from compilers in the beginning. This is because the
> compilers have not yet integrated this form of a specifier into their
> correponding extensions (gcc attributes). So unfortunately also
> testing this feature may be a bit noisy for the moment.
> 
> The only architecture dependend choice is the type for N == 64, which
> may be `long` or `long long`. We just mimick the test that is done in
> other places to compare `UINTPTR_MAX` and `UINT64_MAX` to determine
> that.
> ---
>  src/stdio/vfprintf.c  | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  src/stdio/vfwprintf.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/stdio/vfprintf.c b/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
> index cbc79783..1a516663 100644
> --- a/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
> +++ b/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>  
>  enum {
>  	BARE, LPRE, LLPRE, HPRE, HHPRE, BIGLPRE,
> -	ZTPRE, JPRE,
> +	ZTPRE, JPRE, WPRE,
>  	STOP,
>  	PTR, INT, UINT, ULLONG,
>  	LONG, ULONG,
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static const unsigned char states[]['z'-'A'+1] = {
>  		S('s') = PTR, S('S') = PTR, S('p') = UIPTR, S('n') = PTR,
>  		S('m') = NOARG,
>  		S('l') = LPRE, S('h') = HPRE, S('L') = BIGLPRE,
> -		S('z') = ZTPRE, S('j') = JPRE, S('t') = ZTPRE,
> +		S('z') = ZTPRE, S('j') = JPRE, S('t') = ZTPRE, S('w') = WPRE,
>  	}, { /* 1: l-prefixed */
>  		S('b') = ULONG, S('B') = ULONG,
>  		S('d') = LONG, S('i') = LONG,
> @@ -525,8 +525,22 @@ static int printf_core(FILE *f, const char *fmt, va_list *ap, union arg *nl_arg,
>  		st=0;
>  		do {
>  			if (OOB(*s)) goto inval;
> +		wpre:
>  			ps=st;
>  			st=states[st]S(*s++);
> +			if (st == WPRE) {
> +				switch (getint(&s)) {
> +				case 8:  st = HHPRE; goto wpre;
> +				case 16: st = HPRE; goto wpre;
> +				case 32: st = BARE; goto wpre;
> +#if UINTPTR_MAX >= UINT64_MAX
> +				case 64: st = LPRE; goto wpre;
> +#else
> +				case 64: st = LLPRE; goto wpre;
> +#endif
> +				default: goto inval;
> +				}
> +			}
>  		} while (st-1<STOP);
>  		if (!st) goto inval;

I don't see how this works. While you're in this new WPRE state,
you're accesing an element of the states[] array with a potentially
out-of-bounds index, because you skipped over the bounds check to
ensure that the index is valid. I'm not clear why you're doing that
instead of just continuing the loop.

My preference would be not adding any code at all here and using the
existing state machine, adding state transitions for the new prefixes
to it, but that would require expanding the states stable to start at
'1' instead of 'A', and to have a couple more intermediate states. I'm
not sure how large that would get. There's a good chance it's
comparable to the size of any added code, though.

One minor thing with the implementation using getint(): it accepts
leading zeros, which are not valid here.

Rich

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