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fix off-by-one error that caused uninitialized memory read in floatscan

this caused misreading of certain floating point values that are exact
multiples of large powers of ten, unpredictable depending on prior
stack contents.
Rich Felker 13 years ago
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      src/internal/floatscan.c

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src/internal/floatscan.c

@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static long double decfloat(FILE *f, int c, int bits, int emin, int sign, int po
 
 	/* Assemble desired bits into floating point variable */
 	for (y=i=0; i<LD_B1B_DIG; i++) {
-		if ((a+i & MASK)==z) x[z=(z+1 & MASK)] = 0;
+		if ((a+i & MASK)==z) x[(z=(z+1 & MASK))-1] = 0;
 		y = 1000000000.0L * y + x[a+i & MASK];
 	}