* doc/m4.texinfo (Format): Add a test.
* NEWS: Document the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
---
Here's my followup to test your patch. Thanks again.
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
NEWS | 3 +++
THANKS | 1 +
doc/m4.texinfo | 13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4141f53..ec3852a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-08-30 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
+
+ Test previous commit.
+ * doc/m4.texinfo (Format): Add a test.
+ * NEWS: Document the fix.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+
2010-08-30 Carlo Teubner <....@gmail.com> (tiny change)
Avoid a crash with bad format string.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a642711..886ab31 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ GNU M4 NEWS - User visible changes.
* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4.15 (2010-08-??) [stable]
+** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9b where the format builtin could
+ crash on an invalid format string.
+
** Fix compilation against newer glibc, and on AIX 7.1BETA.
** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 5fed251..b0f0c19 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo
index 062ecb2..092995b 100644
--- a/doc/m4.texinfo
+++ b/doc/m4.texinfo
@@ -6097,6 +6097,19 @@ Format
@result{}
@end example
+...@ignore
+...@comment Expose a crash with a bad format string fixed in 1.4.15.
+...@comment Unfortuntely, 8-bit bytes are hard to check for; but the
+...@comment exit status is enough to sniff the crash in broken versions.
+
+...@comment xerr: ignore
+...@example
+format(`%'format(`%c', `128'))
+...@result{}
+...@end example
+...@end ignore
+
@node Arithmetic
@chapter Macros for doing arithmetic
--
1.7.2.2
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