I would appreciate more eyes on this to confirm my conclusions about
negative int_type values, and the proposed fix, make sense.

Tested x86_64-linux.

-- >8 --

A negative value for the delim value passed to std::istream::ignore can
never match any character in the stream, because the comparison is done
using traits_type::eq_int_type(sb->sgetc(), delim) and sgetc() never
returns negative values (except at EOF). The optimized version of
ignore for the std::istream specialization uses traits_type::find to
locate the delim character in the streambuf, which _can_ match a
negative delim on platforms where char is signed, but then we do another
comparison using eq_int_type which fails. The code then keeps looping
forever, with traits_type::find saying the character is present and
eq_int_type saying it's not.

A possible fix would be to check with eq_int_type after a successful
find, to see whether we really have a match. However, that would be
suboptimal since we know that a negative delimiter will never match
using eq_int_type. So a better fix is to adjust the check at the top of
the function that handles delim==eof(), so that we treat all negative
delim values as equivalent to EOF. That way we don't bother using find
to search for something that will never match with eq_int_type.

The version of ignore in the primary template doesn't need a change,
because it doesn't use traits_type::find, instead characters are
extracted one-by-one and always matched using eq_int_type. That avoids
the inconsistency between find and eq_int_type.

libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:

        PR libstdc++/93672
        * src/c++98/istream.cc (istream::ignore(streamsize, int_type)):
        Treat all negative delimiter values as eof().
        * testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc: New test.
---
 libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/istream.cc                 |  5 ++++-
 .../27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc      | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 
libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc

diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/istream.cc 
b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/istream.cc
index 07ac739c26a..aa1069dea07 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/istream.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/istream.cc
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
     basic_istream<char>::
     ignore(streamsize __n, int_type __delim)
     {
-      if (traits_type::eq_int_type(__delim, traits_type::eof()))
+      // sgetc() returns either (int_type)(unsigned char)c or -1 for EOF.
+      // If __delim is negative, then eq_int_type(sgetc(), __delim) can only
+      // be true for EOF, so just treat all negative values as eof().
+      if (__delim < 0)
        return ignore(__n);
 
       _M_gcount = 0;
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc 
b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6d11f5622c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_istream/ignore/char/93672.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// { dg-do run }
+
+#include <sstream>
+#include <testsuite_hooks.h>
+
+int main()
+{
+  std::istringstream in("x\xfdxxx\xfex");
+  in.ignore(10, std::char_traits<char>::to_int_type('\xfd'));
+  VERIFY( in.gcount() == 2 );
+  VERIFY( ! in.eof() );
+  in.ignore(10, '\xfe');
+  VERIFY( in.gcount() == 5 );
+  VERIFY( in.eof() );
+}
-- 
2.44.0

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