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author | Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org> | 2014-04-10 19:40:37 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-04-11 09:28:57 +0200 |
commit | 453f6eb9d79dd5aa2812ef956b22723f0a493086 (patch) | |
tree | 31ecebf6ad6a23655983538aadeab16414e30924 /REPORTING-BUGS | |
parent | 1d351ecaac125d9d7a88b2f7cde2a831a674281a (diff) |
built_in: changed to not unconditionally define PAGE_SIZE
When building against musl libc I encountered following issue:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
In file included from xmalloc.h:6:0,
from xmalloc.c:17:
built_in.h:181:0: warning: "PAGE_SIZE" redefined [enabled by default]
In file included from /usr/include/limits.h:8:0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
According to the POSIX standard PAGE_SIZE should be defined in <limits.h> [1]
which is the case with musl libc if for example _GNU_SOURCE or _BSD_SOURCE
are defined which both is the case in netsniff-ng sources.
On my i686 test build the interesting part of <bits/limits.h> which itself
gets included by <limits.h> looks like this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#if defined(_POSIX_SOURCE) || defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE) \
|| defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) || defined(_GNU_SOURCE) || defined(_BSD_SOURCE)
#define PAGE_SIZE 4096
#define LONG_BIT 64
#endif
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note:
Besides that I noticed that currently getpagesize(2) is used, which is
considered legacy and has been dropped with POSIX.1-2001 [2].
According to getpagesize(2) [2] portable applications should use sysconf(3) [3]
By using getpagesize(2) unconditionally the intention was maybe to always use
the run time configuration value of PAGE_SIZE as returned by the kernel.
At least in the case of musl libc and applying this change this would not be
the case anymore as the static PAGE_SIZE value from the header would be used!
References:
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/limits.h.html
[2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getpagesize.2.html
[3] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sysconf.3.html
Signed-off-by: Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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