enum boolval {
false = 0;
is not that challenging.
On Oct 19, 2016 7:38 PM, "Jacob Champion" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/16/2016 05:32 AM, Evgeny Kotkov wrote:
>
>> This patch adds a module for dynamic Brotli (RFC 7932) compression in
>> httpd.
>>
>
> Just in case someone else runs into this: I gave mod_brotli a shot after a
> user on #httpd-dev asked about Brotli compression, and it immediately ran
> my test server out of memory. :(
>
> The issue appears to be that the libbrotli ABI changes depending on the C
> standard in use. (Specifically, the BROTLI_BOOL type is either C99's _Bool
> or an enum.) So mod_brotli, compiled in maintainer-mode (C89), thinks that
> "false" boolean values coming back from the library are "true". This leads
> to some fun infinite loops.
>
> I've commented upstream, since it looks like the switch from 'int' to
> 'BROTLI_BOOL' was explicitly requested by another user:
>
> https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/384
>
> --Jacob
>
