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Re: [PATCH] Rename strdup uses



On 09/02/2017 20:36, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 09/02/2017 13:17, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
>>> Rename existing uses of str(n)dup to __str(n)dup so it no longer needs to be
>>> redirected to a builtin.  Also building GLIBC with -Os now no longer shows localplt
>>> or linkname space failures (partial fix for BZ #15105 and BZ #19463).  Although this
>>> means a loss of inlining (based on current committed headers) in 2 cases, these
>>> are both error messages so not performance critical.
>>
>> I would prefer to just clump both this patch and the one that removes strdup
>> inlines [1] together and then just remove the strdup and strndup macros
>> on string/string.h.  Also, it seems that this patch is not really complete,
>> since by removing the defines on string.h I see the missing spot that
>> triggers PLT failures:
> 
> I think you must have mispasted my patch as it starts like this:
> 
> --
> diff --git a/elf/dl-cache.c b/elf/dl-cache.c
> index cfa335eb326cd04f3892a09d4c00cef8208a2f33..4c8afd0684b96b44ec069f907b9537d4fc2ff6d2 100644
> --- a/elf/dl-cache.c
> +++ b/elf/dl-cache.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ _dl_load_cache_lookup (const char *name)
>    char *temp;
>    temp = alloca (strlen (best) + 1);
>    strcpy (temp, best);
> -  return strdup (temp);
> +  return __strdup (temp);
>  }

Indeed, my bad here.

>  
>  #ifndef MAP_COPY
> diff --git a/inet/rcmd.c b/inet/rcmd.c
> 
>> With this change we can just remove the str{n}dup macros on string.h and
>> simplify this a lot.
> 
> I'll remove that chunk from my other patch then. I specifically did this search and replace as
> a separate patch since it's much easier to review and get approval for minor clean-ups.
> 
> Wilco
> 

Ah right, although imho for such coupled patchset splitting is more confusing
than a single one.


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