Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:59 AM Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [email protected] wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:32 AM Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> I encourage OpenLDAP to fix the undefined behavior. OpenLDAP is an >>>>> important project, and the undefined behavior is causing too many >>>>> tangential problems. >>>> >>>> Undefined behavior is not a bug, nor is it prohibited by the C spec. It is >>>> a necessary >>>> part of the language for its intended use as a system programming >>>> language, writing >>>> machine-specific programs. Anyone who says it is prohibited by the spec is >>>> wrong. >>> >>> I don't believe this is correct. >>> >>> Maybe you are thinking of implementation defined behavior? >> >> That would apply to how a particular compiler implementation treats some >> piece of code. >> Whether a CPU supports unaligned access is machine-defined. Since our code >> is already >> properly ifdef'd for the machines which do or don't support it, the fact >> that this is >> "non-portable" is not an issue. > > The undefined behavior is causing OpenLDAP to fail testing. > > Worse, it is causing test failures in programs and libraries which use > OpenLDAP. The OpenLDAP bugs have cross-pollinated into other programs > and libraries. It is not simply contained or limited to OpenLDAP. > > That's a big problem for testing a QA folks.
Then the tests are broken, because these are not bugs. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
