My christmas wishlist for OOo:
idlc:
astexpression.cxx doesn't compile here and some
checks like (uint64)foo < 0 generate unneccessary
warnings. [1]
Switches covering all the theoretical
possible values or using "default:"s would
also make it compile on gcc with less warnings.
store:
Please do not give internal and external classes
the same name. [2]
sal:
Please do not read the command-line arguments
from /proc[3]. Or at least do not return NULL in
getCmdLine or do not expect non-NULL in
osl_psz_getExecutableFile, i.e. give some error
in one of these rotines instead of just segfaulting.
[1] While I also think it good the be paranoid, my buggy gcc is just to
much confused by checking unsigned values to be less than zero, or
64-bit values to represent larger numbers than fit in 64 bit. Could
this somehow be tested while compiling instead of runtime?
[2] Yes, I now, there are .map files to sperate them. But while compiling
it manually, I did again something wrong and got segfaults on the
stranges places. Yust renaming the internal OStoreDirectory with
OStoreDirectoryInternal makes it bulletproof against missed .maps
and should therefore be a good investment in the future. (Especially
as it does not affect anything outside libstore)
[3] Yes, no /proc being mounted is not that unnormal, for examples debian
autobuilders tend to build packages in chroots.
I know that this is quite an very large wish. Resolving it the
right way by saving the arguments in main would need changes in any
program calling these rotines, including all the helper-programms like
idlc and co.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
--
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve
nor will he ever receive either. (Benjamin Franklin)
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