[Cfp-interest] printf, NaN, infinity

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:33:04 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>Couldn't the security problem be addressed by limiting the length of any n-char-sequence that might appear in printf output of nan(n-char-sequence), perhaps to the value of an implementation-defined macro? The macro value could be zero if the implementation never printed n-char-sequences.
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While that would work, would it not also introduce release-to-release 
incompatible changes?

My understanding is some implementations output English text describing
what the payload means.

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