Re: Preventing abort() and exit() calls in libpq

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Subject: Re: Preventing abort() and exit() calls in libpq
Date: 2021-06-28 08:20:52
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2106281013430.1401908@pseudo
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>> +# Check for functions that libpq must not call.
>> +# (If nm doesn't exist or doesn't work on shlibs, this test will silently
>> +# do nothing, which is fine.)
>> +.PHONY: check-libpq-refs
>> +check-libpq-refs: $(shlib)
>> + @! nm -A -g -u $< 2>/dev/null | grep -e abort -e exit
>
> "abort" and "exit" could be generic terms present in some other
> libraries. Could be be better to match with "U abort" and "U exit"
> instead? MinGW has a nm command, and it has a compatible option set,
> so I think that it should work.

A possible trick is to add ccp flags such as: -Dexit=exit_BAD
-Dabort=abort_BAD.

--
Fabien.

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