Re: ra_svn vwrite_tuple() optional elements robustness

Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:50:51 +0100:
> On 06.11.2016 02:21, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >During the r1767197 thread, I noticed that vwrite_tuple() doesn't
> >enforce its precondition that in the optional part of a tuple, either
> >all values are valid or no value is; a call such as
> >
> > vwrite_tuple("(?r?r)", SVN_INVALID_REVNUM, (svn_revnum_t) 42)
> >
> >would happily generate a «( 42 ) » tuple, instead of triggering an
> >SVN_ERR_MALFUNCTION().
> >
> >This would be easy to fix, and would prevent a class of bugs.
> This function seems to have a number of bugs,
> for instance:
>
> * optional sub-structs don't get a "("
> * the OPT flag is global instead of per-struct

I hope at least the parser routines don't have such bugs.

(excuse brevity; can't be verbose at the moment)
Received on 2016-11-15 00:45:42 CET