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

Simon Glass
2021-07-23T21:41:28Z

Hi Wolfgang,

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 00:55, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Simon,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ1sCK0_3uiGcQPXBUyGoUmOPgbBDP7TNoekWeY=sa7Ssw@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > Drop? AFAICT we never supported octal. Something like "md 040" will
> > > start dumping at 0x00000040, right?
> >
> > 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)

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Regards,
Simon