[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Prevent warnings with unchecked asprintf and FORTIFY_SOURCE

[Andres P]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> +/* error handling in a single fn please */
>
> Seriously, this is one of the my useless pieces of function documentation I
> have ever seen.
>

Call it wishful thinking?

>> +void vw_asprintf(char **str, const char *fmt, ...)
>
> Why "vw_"?  We have several other similar wrappers called pm_<foo> in util.c
> already, so stick with that naming for consistency.
>
> Also, add the function proto to util.h.
>

I hope you don't do that since noone that includes util.h uses
asprintf. This wrapper is useless outside util.c for the time being.

Obviously prefixing it with pm_ is retarded since, as I said, it gets no use
outside were it's defined...

> As an aside, it was obvious that this was something I was working on. So
> duplicating the work is a waste of both of our time.   On that note, do not
> bother resubmitting with my comments addressed as it would make the patch
> almost identical to what I have locally.
>

Um, I explicitely said in the patch that I disagreed with it. If that's not
indicative that I don't intend for this to be a commit, I don't know what is. I
was showing you how to do it with a function without copy pasting everything.

Also, good thing that this whole asprintf "issue" made me realize that
pacman isn't ansi at all.

Andres P