Re: [PATCH] msvcrt: The '*' character should be interpreted as the beginning of the width specification

[Andrew Eikum]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 08:22:40PM +0100, Piotr Caban wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 11/5/21 19:49, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum
> >
> > For example,
> >  "%*0d", 1, ...
> >
> > becomes
> >  "%10d", ...
> >
> > i.e. prints ten digits.
>
> It looks like a bug in native implementation. It also got fixed in newer
> versions of C runtime (I have only checked ucrtbase). Is there an
> application that depends on that?

Yeah, newly released Age of Empires IV uses a format string like
"%0*02d" and crashes when Wine invokes the error handler.

Andrew