OMG, dо you mean ISO or ANSI are to certify nginx source code for
the C language standards compliance?
I guess, it is the clause 7.1.3 of the recent ANSI/ISO C language
standard that makes you so worry. The clause states that using
the identifiers reserved for the C standard library usage results
in undefined behavior.
Well, the behavior that is said to be undefined by the C language
standard, must be pretty well defined by a particular compiler
and a C standard library implementation. That is, when you are
building nginx for a particular operating system, the behavior is
rather implementation-defined, since you are bound to certain
compiler and the C standard library implementation. In this case,
when you redefine a macro that is already defined, e.g. by the
system header file, the most probably, you will be strictly
warned against doing so, or you even end up with a broken build.
I mean, there is basically no harm in the undefined behavior.
Unless you know what you are doing.
As far as I can see, neither Igor nor other nginx developers do
pretend to duplicate any C standard library functionality.
Instead, they provide the API to the server core for module
developers. The API header files should be considered as a part
of the module's translation environment, while the server core is
to be a significant part of its execution environment, pretty
much like the C standard library for the server core itself.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Vladimir
On 22.10.2013 19:06, Manlio Perillo wrote:
On 22/10/2013 16:36, Igor Sysoev wrote:
On Oct 22, 2013, at 18:32 , Manlio Perillo wrote:
As per ISO C, identifiers that begin with an underscore and an
uppercase letter are always reserved for any use; however in
Nginx source code such identifiers are used as macros to guard
against multiple file inclusion.
This is not a real issue, but since it is easy to fix I have
reported it.
I do not believe that C reserved words will ever start with
_NGX_...
Of course, that's the reason why I wrote this is not a real issue.
However, according to ISO C, doing so is still undefined behaviour;
pratically this is not a problem, unless you want to get some
sort of source code certification (?).
Regards Manlio
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