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2013-06-25Change debugging to use flags rather than levelsPeter Seebach
This is a moderately intrusive change. The basic overall effect: Debugging messages are now controlled, not by a numeric "level", but by a series of flags, which are expressed as a string of letters. Each flag has a single-letter form used for string specifications, a name, a description, a numeric value (1 through N), and a flag value (which is 1 << the numeric value). (This does mean that no flag has the value 1, so we only have 31 bits available. Tiny violins play.) The other significant change is that the pseudo_debug calls are now implemented with a do/while macro containing a conditional, so that computationally-expensive arguments are never evaluated if the corresponding debug flags weren't set. The assumption is that in the vast majority of cases (specifically, all of them so far) the debug flags for a given call are a compile-time constant, so the nested conditional will never actually show up in code when compiled with optimization; we'll just see the appropriate conditional test. The VERBOSE flag is magical, in that if the VERBOSE flag is used in a message, the debug flags have to have both VERBOSE and at least one other flag for the call to be made. This should dramatically improve performance for a lot of cases without as much need for PSEUDO_NDEBUG, and improve the ability of users to get coherent debugging output that means something and is relevant to a given case. It's also intended to set the stage for future development work involving improving the clarity and legibility of pseudo's diagnostic messages in general. Old things which used numeric values for PSEUDO_DEBUG will sort of continue to work, though they will almost always be less verbose than they used to. There should probably be a pass through adding "| PDBGF_CONSISTENCY" to a lot of the messages that are specific to some other type.
2012-08-02Remove the _plain thing, use PSEUDO_STATBUF everywhere.Peter Seebach
The _plain thing was added because of clashes between Linux ("struct stat64 for 64-bit file sizes") and Darwin ("struct stat is already 64 bits"). But it turns out not to be enough, because stat will *fail* if it cannot represent a file size, so when something like unlinkat() calls a non-64-bit stat in order to determine whether a file exists, it gets the wrong answer if the file is over 2GB in size. Solution: Continue using PSEUDO_STATBUF, and also provide defines for base_stat() which can be either real_stat() or real_stat64(), etcetera. This eliminates any reason to need the _plain functions. It also suggests that the other real___fxstatat() calls should someday go away because that is an ugly, ugly, implementation detail. As part of testing this, fix up some bitrot which affected Darwin (such as the continue outside of a loop, but inside an #ifdef; that was left over from the conversion of init_one_wrapper to a separate function).
2011-03-25Merge in ports workPeter Seebach
This is a spiffied-up rebase of a bunch of intermediate changes, presented as a whole because it is, surprisingly, less confusing that way. The basic idea is to separate the guts code into categories ranging from generic stuff that can be the same everywhere and specific variants. The big scary one is the Darwin support, which actually seems to run okay on 64-bit OS X 10.6. (No other variants were tested.) The other example given is support for the old clone() syscall on RHEL 4, which affects some wrlinux use cases. There's a few minor cleanup bits here, such as a function with inconsistent calling conventions, but nothing really exciting.
2010-03-26Updates: Enable additional warnings, fix a number of things.Peter Seebach
None of them seem to have been genuine problems, but it's prettier now, and some were questionable.
2010-03-16initial public releasePeter Seebach