asserts and manadatory build instructions (was ITS#8240)
by Michael Ströder
hyc(a)symas.com wrote in ITS#8240:
> Our patch response was too hasty. There is no OpenLDAP bug here, the real
> issue is production binaries being built with asserts enabled instead of
> compiling with -DNDEBUG. That's an issue for packagers and distros to resolve.
> Closing this ITS, not an OpenLDAP bug.
Maybe I missed something. But this is the first time I've heard about -DNDEBUG
being mandatory when compiling binary packages for production use. Does it
have other effects?
And what are general rules for assert statements in OpenLDAP code?
In my own (Python) code assert statements are supposed to be only triggered if
something goes wrong *internally* (type issues etc.). If somebody manages to
trigger an assert statement with invalid input from "outside" I always
consider this to be a serious bug revealing insufficient error handling even
though e.g. web2ldap just logs the exception but won't crash. YMMV, but please
clarify.
I also wonder whether there are more mandatory rules for building packages and
where I can find them.
Please don't get me wrong: My inquiry is in good faith to avoid unnecessary
ITS based on misunderstanding.
Ciao, Michael.
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Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
by Timur Kristóf
> I just had a look at how BDB handled this. As you can see they used a
> TO_TSTRING macro to convert incoming pathnames from UTF8 to UTF16.
>
> https://gitorious.org/berkeleydb/berkeleydb/source/347d239a1e44ed4f773ae9...
>
> https://gitorious.org/berkeleydb/berkeleydb/source/347d239a1e44ed4f773ae9...
>
> (And a FROM_TSTRING for the reverse, as well.)
(Mea culpa, I accidentally hit "reply" instead of "reply all". Sorry.
Now reposting to the mailing list.)
Since we only need to do this on Windows, we could use
MultiByteToWideChar with CP_UTF8. (That's what TO_TSTRING does, too.)
I do not think we would ever need to do any such conversion on UNIX.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd319072%28v=vs....
I'm not sure if we can just copy-paste BDB's code. Probably not, that
would lead to licensing issues, wouldn't it?
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