Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Does anyone have a clue why?
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>Evidently your sscanf isn't setting errno for overflow --- look at
>seg_atof() in segparse.y.
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>This code shows several other signs of severe brain death, actually,
>like leaking 256 bytes on each call for an error message buffer that it
>doesn't even need :-( I'd recommend ripping the whole thing out and
>replacing with a call to float4in.
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Yeah. If anyone can do this quickly I'd be grateful. Otherwise it will
probably be a few days before I get it done.
Alternatively, could we not just use strtof instead of sscanf?
cheers
andrew
