Re: [PATCH 13/15] RFC: lib: Support a binary prefix 0y

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-24T13:00:32Z

Dear Simon,

In message <CAPnjgZ0B0oyxn8enY4dKNmGYJtF-vr9tYXzaBahLDt70Wz6axA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > > There are quite a few places where simple_strtoul() is called with a
> > > base of 0. In that case, if the string starts with 0 it is interpreted
> > > as octal.
> >
> > That's a bug, then.
>
> If so it is a 19-year-old bug: (was lib_generic/vsprintc.c)
>
> 153d511e369 Initial revision

Mea culpa.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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