Re: [Tinycc-devel] A couple of questions

[grischka]

On 12.02.2024 15:35, George Sedov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all, I noticed that throughout the codebase there is a mix of spaces 
> and tabs. This makes it very difficult to produce out-of-tree patches, since 
> most of the editors will replace tabs with spaces. Is there a reason behind it?

Obviously then the reason must be that most people here did not
use "most of the editors" ... ;)

> The second question is about the bounds check. In the current implementation it 
> is common to first access the provided pointer, and only after that check if it 
> is valid or not (e.g. the __bound_str* functions). Doesn't it defy the whole 
> purpose of the functions? What is the intended usecase of this feature?

I guess the intention is to warn you about potential problems,
rather than about problems that you already have (crashes or
sume such).

-- gr

> BW,
>     George