In the string/string.h and string/strings.h headers, we have a couple
of macros that "tell the caller that we provide correct C++
prototypes" according to the comment; they are used to determine
whether to wrap some prototypes in "extern "C++"" (and provide
multiple overloads of them, and some other magic) when __cplusplus is
defined.
The macros are set to check for sufficiently-recent GCC versions (4.4
and later), but this is not the right check for non-GCC compilers. In
particular, these macros should also be set when using Clang -- if
they are not set, then Clang will be unable to correctly diagnose a
number of subtle bugs that will be errors in GCC compilations.
As per discussion on earlier versions of this patch, rather than
restrict the fix to Clang per se, we assume that all C++ compilers that
claim to fully support C++98 are using a standard-conforming C++
standard library, which seems pretty reasonable. Clang has been
providing an appropriate value of __cplusplus since May 2012.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00095.html
I found this useful at one stage when I was seeing a huge number of
memrchr failures all of test number 10.
* string/tester.c (test_memrchr): Increment reported test cycle.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00094.html
Using plain %s here runs the risk of segfaulting when displaying the
string. src and dst aren't zero terminated strings.
* string/test-memcpy.c (do_one_test): When reporting errors, print
string address and don't overrun end of string.
strcoll is implemented using a cache for indices and weights of
collation sequences in the strings so that subsequent passes do not
have to search through collation data again. For very large string
inputs, the cache size computation could overflow. In such a case,
use the fallback function that does not cache indices and weights of
collation sequences.
Fixes CVE-2012-4412.
strcoll currently falls back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a
possible stack overflow. This patch implements sequence traversal and
comparison without caching indices and rules.
Fixes CVE-2012-4424.
Check wheter the compiler has the option -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns
to inhibit loop transformation to library calls and uses it on memset
and memmove default implementation to avoid recursive calls.
