<arpa/nameser.h>: Remove RR type classification macros [BZ #20592]

The macros are no longer up-to-date, and the classification is not
useful.  In this particular case, removal without prior deprecation
seems the right approach.
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Florian Weimer 2016-09-21 16:27:14 +02:00
parent 006768c72a
commit be728303a6
3 changed files with 13 additions and 11 deletions

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2016-09-21 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
[BZ #20592]
Remove RR type classification macros.
* resolv/arpa/nameser.h (ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p, ns_t_rr_p)
(ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p): Remove.
2016-09-21 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Remove misleading version information.

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@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Version 2.25
only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
<arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
Security related changes:
On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which

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@ -283,17 +283,6 @@ typedef enum __ns_type {
ns_t_max = 65536
} ns_type;
/* Exclusively a QTYPE? (not also an RTYPE) */
#define ns_t_qt_p(t) (ns_t_xfr_p(t) || (t) == ns_t_any || \
(t) == ns_t_mailb || (t) == ns_t_maila)
/* Some kind of meta-RR? (not a QTYPE, but also not an RTYPE) */
#define ns_t_mrr_p(t) ((t) == ns_t_tsig || (t) == ns_t_opt)
/* Exclusively an RTYPE? (not also a QTYPE or a meta-RR) */
#define ns_t_rr_p(t) (!ns_t_qt_p(t) && !ns_t_mrr_p(t))
#define ns_t_udp_p(t) ((t) != ns_t_axfr && (t) != ns_t_zxfr)
#define ns_t_xfr_p(t) ((t) == ns_t_axfr || (t) == ns_t_ixfr || \
(t) == ns_t_zxfr)
/*%
* Values for class field
*/