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The test for obsolete typedefs in installed headers was implemented using grep, and could therefore get false positives on e.g. “ulong” in a comment. It was also scanning all of the headers included by our headers, and therefore testing headers we don’t control, e.g. Linux kernel headers. This patch splits the obsolete-typedef test from scripts/check-installed-headers.sh to a separate program, scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py. Being implemented in Python, it is feasible to make it tokenize C accurately enough to avoid false positives on the contents of comments and strings. It also only examines $(headers) in each subdirectory--all the headers we install, but not any external dependencies of those headers. Headers whose installed name starts with finclude/ are ignored, on the assumption that they contain Fortran. It is also feasible to make the new test understand the difference between _defining_ the obsolete typedefs and _using_ the obsolete typedefs, which means posix/{bits,sys}/types.h no longer need to be exempted. This uncovered an actual bug in bits/types.h: __quad_t and __u_quad_t were being used to define __S64_TYPE, __U64_TYPE, __SQUAD_TYPE and __UQUAD_TYPE. These are changed to __int64_t and __uint64_t respectively. This is a safe change, despite the comments in bits/types.h claiming a difference between __quad_t and __int64_t, because those comments are incorrect. In all current ABIs, both __quad_t and __int64_t are ‘long’ when ‘long’ is a 64-bit type, and ‘long long’ when ‘long’ is a 32-bit type, and similarly for __u_quad_t and __uint64_t. (Changing the types to be what the comments say they are would be an ABI break, as it affects C++ name mangling.) This patch includes a minimal change to make the comments not completely wrong. sys/types.h was defining the legacy BSD u_intN_t typedefs using a construct that was not necessarily consistent with how the C99 uintN_t typedefs are defined, and is also too complicated for the new script to understand (it lexes C relatively accurately, but it does not attempt to expand preprocessor macros, nor does it do any actual parsing). This patch cuts all of that out and uses bits/types.h's __uintN_t typedefs to define u_intN_t instead. This is verified to not change the ABI on any supported architecture, via the c++-types test, which means u_intN_t and uintN_t were, in fact, consistent on all supported architectures. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> * scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py: New test script. * scripts/check-installed-headers.sh: Remove tests for obsolete typedefs, superseded by check-obsolete-constructs.py. * Rules: Run scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py over $(headers) as a special test. Update commentary. * posix/bits/types.h (__SQUAD_TYPE, __S64_TYPE): Define as __int64_t. (__UQUAD_TYPE, __U64_TYPE): Define as __uint64_t. Update commentary. * posix/sys/types.h (__u_intN_t): Remove. (u_int8_t): Typedef using __uint8_t. (u_int16_t): Typedef using __uint16_t. (u_int32_t): Typedef using __uint32_t. (u_int64_t): Typedef using __uint64_t. (cherry picked from commit 711a322a235d4c8177713f11aa59156603b94aeb)
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