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