h.b.furuseth(a)usit.uio.no wrote:
On 12/09/15 16:24, michael(a)stroeder.com wrote:
> I've compiled with CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG" (also tried CPPFLAGS) but this did
not
> help. slapd still crashes when hitting the assert.
Yes, portable.h #undefs it by default. OpenLDAP has always conflated
logging, debug output and asserts behind LDAP_DEBUG. We've been saying
for some time that we really ought to do something about that someday...
Yes, and that's more obviously a bug that we can fix.
Even ignoring that, demanding -NDEBUG is backwards in so many ways:
Using C's features like <assert.h> is not the user's job, it's
OpenLDAP's (i.e. configure and portable.hin). The person building
OpenLDAP might not even be a C programmer who knows about the C
language quirk that it has a feature makes errors crash by default.
It is standard practice in C code. assert() and NDEBUG are part of the C
standard. A person who doesn't know C has no business building the code.
Certainly the libraries are of no use to them if they're not C programmers
already.
A simple "./configure --prefix=/whatever" ought to be a
reasonable way
to build OpenLDAP, like with most other packages. There are
installation instructions and they do not mention NDEBUG.
In particular since this isn't even about catching a bug in OpenLDAP,
but in the input. If someone wants to crash-debug the input to slapd,
let him #define something when building slapd. You could replace the
assert() with debug_assert() or something. The same goes for any
other assert which doesn't mean "assert(the code is correct)".
Every use of assert is "assert(the code is correct)" - but that often depends
on dynamic state, not just the statically written code. Just like
"assert(SOCKBUF_VALID(sb))" or whatever else. That is the case for the assert
in question here.
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