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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Inconsistent... |
| Date | 2023-11-01 00:39 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87a5ryqpc5.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <uhpndq$3c4tj$1@i2pn2.org> <87lebjqb6g.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <uhr28e$3dnb9$1@i2pn2.org> <87fs1qrcns.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <uhrhdm$3edkt$1@i2pn2.org> |
bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [Another repost as i2pn2 not always sending my messges]
>
> On 31/10/2023 16:15, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> [Reposting as the original reply seems to have vanished, but it may
>>> reappear]
>>>
>>> On 31/10/2023 11:32, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 30/10/2023 23:22, bart wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/10/2023 21:01, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I tweaked the source code (used explicit assignment to fields of some
>>>>>> structs) to be able to use my compilers.
>>>>>> Then I tried these compilers:
>>>>>> gcc 13.2.0 - this worked. (I assume it is supposed to show some
>>>>>> plaintext, encrypted text starting "fog.IiQ' U'?zDjP))v$oN)?z<xT
>>>>>> CAPNKUfB...", then the identical plaintext)
>>>>>> tcc - failed. The encrypted text started
>>>>>> "xy,$}lu~@NM*a%^z1YA+'N@9yrV]E...", and the decrypted was:
>>>>>>
>>>
> "dEjtkuXVjq5*uzqpWXE6tkzXVjq5czuqpWXE!t9zX\j35czu30/XE!tkuX\!qocuu3pWXEjtkzXVj3oczuq4WXE!0
>>>>>> kz.Vjqocuu3p/TEj0ku.Vj31cuz3pWXEjtkzXVj3o*uzq4W."
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding tcc, a few things differ internally, but I think one clue is
>>> here:
>>>>>
>>>>> #define CT_MBROT_ABET_LOOKUP(mp_char) \
>>>>> ((strchr(CT_MBROT_ABET, (mp_char))) - CT_MBROT_ABET)
>>>>>
>>>>> This is effectively doing the following (to get an offset into the
>>> string?):
>>>>>
>>>>> str("ABC", c) - "ABC";
>>>>>
>>>>> It is assuming that both string literals have the same address.
>>>>
>>>> This is an unwarranted assumption.
>>>>
>>>> But the result is also undefined when mp_char does not occur in the
>>>> string which can happen for two printable ASCII characters.
>>>>
>>>> Chris, you should test your code more thoroughly.
>>>>
>>>>> If I move that string into a variable, then Tcc starts to work. So does
>>>>> bcc.
>>>>
>>>> Saying that tcc starts to work when you fix the bug suggests that tcc
>>>> was not working before, but it's the code that was not working. tcc
>>>> (and presumably bcc) were working fine all along.
>>>>
>>>>> lccwin32 still has a problem.
>>>>
>>>> What's the problem? Are you sure it's lccwin32 and not the source code
>>>> that has the problem?
>>>
>>> When I say that compiler X has a problem, obviously I mean that the
> program
>>> built with X shows an error.
>>
>> That's a very odd way of putting it. My guess is that the
>> program has multiple meanings (and in some cases none). The compiler is
>> (probably) correctly picking one of them.
>>
>>> That is, the results are incorrect.
>>
>> Ah, then you know more that I. What are the correct results?
>
> No spec is given. But I would say one requirement is that encrypting and
> then decrypting a piece of plain text should produce the original
> text.
I think we've ended up talking about different things. I've not seen
such a run. The OP posted two runs that both re-created the original
text, but which had different intermediate data.
--
Ben.
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Re: Inconsistent... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-31 16:15 +0000
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[OT] Encryption (Was: Inconsistent...) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-11-03 10:10 +0000
Re: [OT] Encryption (Was: Inconsistent...) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-11-03 15:01 +0100
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