From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20291 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2017 14:50:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 20264 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2017 14:50:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:50:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Andreas Schwab CC: Adhemerval Zanella , , Paul Eggert Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] posix: Consolidate glob implementation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1504643122-14874-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> <1504643122-14874-8-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00514.txt.bz2 On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Sep 12 2017, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > Does this mean we don't have any tests that verify a call to glob64 can be > > linked (and works)? If so, such tests should be added (generally, all > > non-compat symbols ought to be tested). > > It's a long standing bug that we don't verify the API. See the various > incidences about missing symbols on some architectures. Well, I think of it as a large number of bugs that some symbol X is missing test coverage. In general, each of those bugs can be addressed independently by adding a test or tests of an untested interface. See for some scripts I used to produce a list of untested symbols. Ideally, everything in the API would indeed be tested and documented. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com