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author | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2025-04-13 00:40:37 +0300 |
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committer | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2025-04-13 01:33:43 +0300 |
commit | 628c73d984fd7663607cc3fd9368f809855906fd (patch) | |
tree | bf9922ec94bbce2df19ef146724bbfe124138998 /www | |
parent | 3b06b44fc22cd5c936dd3ce677290e3f65f7f8ce (diff) | |
download | sciteco-628c73d984fd7663607cc3fd9368f809855906fd.tar.gz |
fixed undoing bitfields on Windows
* It turns out that `bool` (_Bool) in bitfields may cause
padding to the next 32-bit word.
This was only observed on MinGW.
I am not entirely sure why, although the C standard does
not guarantee much with regard to bitfield memory layout
and there are 64-bit available due to passing anyway.
Actually, they could also be layed out in a different order.
* I am now consistently using guint instead of `bool` in bitfields
to prevent any potential surprises.
* The way that guint was aliased with bitfield structs
for undoing teco_machine_main_t and teco_machine_qregspec_t flags
was therefore insecure.
It was not guaranteed that the __flags field really "captures"
all of the bit field.
Even with `guint v : 1` fields, this was not guaranteed.
We would have required a static assertion for robustness.
Alternatively, we could have declared a `gsize __flags` variable
as well. This __should__ be safe since gsize should always be
pointer sized and correspond to the platform's alignment.
However, it's also not 100% guaranteed.
Using classic ANSI C enums with bit operations to encode multiple
fields and flags into a single integer also doesn't look very
attractive.
* Instead, we now define scalar types with their own teco_undo_push()
shortcuts for the bitfield structs.
This is in one way simpler and much more robust, but on the other
hand complicates access to the flag variables.
* It's a good question whether a `struct __attribute__((packed))` bitfield
with guint fields would be a reliable replacement for flag enums, that
are communicated with the "outside" (TECO) world.
I am not going to risk it until GCC gives any guarantees, though.
For the time being, bitfields are only used internally where
the concrete memory layout (bit positions) is not crucial.
* This fixes the test suite and therefore probably CI and nightly
builds on Windows.
* Test case: Rub out `@I//` or `@Xq` until before the `@`.
The parser doesn't know that `@` is still set and allows
all sorts of commands where `@` should be forbidden.
* It's unknown how long this has been broken on Windows - quite
possibly since v2.0.
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