>Number:         4303
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       as treats escapes in strings the wrong way.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 20 05:20:03 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
>Release:        NetBSD-current 971020
>Environment:
System: NetBSD dogbert.cs.chalmers.se 1.2D NetBSD 1.2D (DOGBERT) #0: Thu Mar 20 17:52:53 MET 1997 root@dogbert.cs.chalmers.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DOGBERT i386


>Description:
	When \NNN is used in strings in the input to as it decodes them
	in the wrong way.  The right way is use at most 3 digits after
	the \, not all of them.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Try this:
	.ascii	"\040040"
	This should be the string " 040", not " ".
>Fix:
	Apply the patch below.

*** read.c.old	Mon Oct 20 14:06:38 1997
--- read.c	Mon Oct 20 14:07:38 1997
***************
*** 2095,2102 ****
  		case '8':
  		case '9': {
  			long number;
  			
! 			for (number = 0; isdigit(c); c = *input_line_pointer++) {
  				number = number * 8 + c - '0';
  			}
  			c = number & 0xff;
--- 2095,2105 ----
  		case '8':
  		case '9': {
  			long number;
+                         int nchar;
  			
! 			for (nchar = 0, number = 0; 
!                              nchar < 3 && isdigit(c); 
!                              c = *input_line_pointer++, nchar++) {
  				number = number * 8 + c - '0';
  			}
  			c = number & 0xff;
>Audit-Trail:
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