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Check return codes everywhere #5350

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vicuna opened this issue Aug 27, 2011 · 5 comments
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Check return codes everywhere #5350

vicuna opened this issue Aug 27, 2011 · 5 comments
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vicuna commented Aug 27, 2011

Original bug ID: 5350
Reporter: @elfring
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2015-12-11T18:21:22Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.12.1
Target version: 4.01.0+dev
Fixed in version: 4.01.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Some checks for return codes are missing.

Examples:
Would you like to add more error handling for return values from "lseek" like in the function "read_trailer" and from "fprintf" in the function "caml_trace_value_file"?

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http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ocaml/trunk/byterun/startup.c?rev=11156&view=auto
http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ocaml/trunk/byterun/instrtrace.c?rev=11156&view=auto

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vicuna commented Aug 27, 2011

Comment author: @elfring

I suggest to avoid unchecked function calls.
Would you like to detect every error situation as early as possible?

Another update candidate:
function "editbuffer_getasline" ? realloc()
http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ocaml/trunk/win32caml/editbuffer.c?rev=11156&view=auto

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vicuna commented Mar 26, 2012

Comment author: @lefessan

"lseek" would indeed need a fix, but the other functions are mostly debug functions, where error handling is not important.

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vicuna commented Mar 26, 2012

Comment author: @elfring

How do you think about a topic like "How to raise warning if return value is
disregarded - gcc or static code check?"?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2042780/how-to-raise-warning-if-return-value-is-disregarded-gcc-or-static-code-check

How do you think about to apply aspect-oriented software development?
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
http://research.msrg.utoronto.ca/ACC/Tutorial#A_Reusable_Aspect_for_Memory_All
http://aspectc.org/

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vicuna commented Jul 30, 2013

Comment author: dsheets

The return code lseek in read_trailer will never matter as the immediately subsequent read call will always fail if the lseek fails. This will result in a BAD_BYTECODE error.

Is there an actual error in the compiler that results from an unchecked return code that has turned up?

Without a bug reproduction or a listing of questionable code locations, I think this bug should be closed.

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vicuna commented Aug 1, 2013

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Added check for lseek() in read_trailer(). (Commits r13959 in version/4.01 and r13960 in trunk.) I agree with dsheets that it's not really necessary, but the code is clearer this way. Debug printf's don't need checks.

@vicuna vicuna closed this as completed Dec 11, 2015
@vicuna vicuna added this to the 4.01.0 milestone Mar 14, 2019
@vicuna vicuna added the bug label Mar 20, 2019
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