[fpc-pascal] Bug 37080 -- StrToHostAddr accepts all Pascal number notations

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15/05/2020 12:39, Noel Duffy via fpc-pascal wrote:
> While doing some work on bug 37060, the refactoring of StrToHostAddr and
> StrToHostAddr6 in the sockets
> unit,(https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37060), I found that
> StrToHostAddr is doing no validation at all on input address characters
> before calling the function Val, so any Pascal notation that Val
> accepts, such as 0x and $ for hexadecimal, % for binary, & for octal,
> and mathematical signs are all accepted in ipv4 octets.

I added a note to https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37013 about
the fact that this test program fails if range checking is enabled (I
don't know if the range error is in StrToHostAddr6 or in the test
program itself).


Jonas