#46385 [NEW]: sscanf does not work with %b

From: delilahblue at gmail dot com Operating system: Gentoo Linux PHP version: 5.2.6 PHP Bug Type: Strings related Bug description: sscanf does not work with %b Description: ------------ sscanf does not work with %b in the format string. PHP 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo (cli) (built: Sep 27 2008 23:46:17) Linux version 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 3 11:58:28 CEST 2008 USE-flags: apache2 bcmath berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 mysql mysqli ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session sockets spell spl ssl truetype unicode xml zlib other people on freenode#php have the same issue for example with php-5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 on Linux dev 2.6.24-19-386 #1 Wed Aug 20 21:59:50 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Reproduce code: --------------- echo sscanf("01010101", "%b"); Expected result: ---------------- It should output "85". Actual result: -------------- Warning: sscanf(): Bad scan conversion character "b" in php shell code on line 1 Call Stack: 3740.1460 179568 1. {main}() php shell code:0 3740.1460 179568 2. sscanf() php shell code:1 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=46385&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46385&r=mysqlcfg