avoid (size_t)-- (2nd try)

The decrements overflow and these variables remain ~0 when leaving the
while loops.  They are not fatal by accident, but better replace with
ordinal for loops.

See also: https://travis-ci.org/ruby/ruby/jobs/452218871#L3246


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@65630 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index 0e49e4439d..617c8e8f00 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -35,8 +35,12 @@ ruby_scan_oct(const char *start, size_t len, size_t *retlen)
 {
     register const char *s = start;
     register unsigned long retval = 0;
+    size_t i;
 
-    while (len-- && *s >= '0' && *s <= '7') {
+    for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+        if ((s[0] < '0') || ('7' < s[0])) {
+            break;
+        }
 	retval <<= 3;
 	retval |= *s++ - '0';
     }