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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:21:46 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Constants to decode __ctype_b_loc() table
* Sergey Dmitrouk <sdmitrouk@...esssoftek.com> [2014-10-16 11:37:39 +0300]:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:07:12PM -0700, Rich Felker wrote:
> > In the link you cited:
> >
> > "This interface is not in the source standard; it is only in the
> > binary standard."
>
> Even if it's a binary interface, it shouldn't be underspecified. Right
> now __ctype_b_loc.c contains an array of numbers which correspond to
> what glibc has. Consider the following situation: glibc changes masks
> at some point, musl doesn't, someone uses masks from new glibc's
> headers after reading a thread like this one and obtains broken locales.
either glibc changes its locale system and keeps __ctype_b_loc around
with the old semantics (which they can do any time) or they change the
semantics of __ctype_b_loc breaking the current abi (which they should
not do)
this is why depending anything in source headers is broken when you
depend on internal abi: internal details of the source can change,
there is no guarantee about them, abi that is visible to existing
binaries cannot change (hopefully)
so libc++ should not use undocumented masks from glibc ctype.h
libc++ should use standard interfaces (that should be the default)
and if it must use __ctype_b_loc then recognize that glibc headers
are not under their control so they have to replicate the bits they
care about
> Having this documented in form of a comment instead of public interface
> would be good as well, in this case clients could consult place where
> it's documented and be sure that their constants are correct. Say, add
> a comment to __ctype_b_loc.c to clarify meaning of the table and
> document masks at the same time.
i think adding a comment makes sense, but i think we should not
encourage the dependence on accidentally visible abi details of
the libc
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