- Mar 10, 2020
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Simon Tatham authored
This is a sweeping change applied across the whole code base by a spot of Emacs Lisp. Now, everywhere I declare a vtable filled with function pointers (and the occasional const data member), all the members of the vtable structure are initialised by name using the '.fieldname = value' syntax introduced in C99. We were already using this syntax for a handful of things in the new key-generation progress report system, so it's not new to the code base as a whole. The advantage is that now, when a vtable only declares a subset of the available fields, I can initialise the rest to NULL or zero just by leaving them out. This is most dramatic in a couple of the outlying vtables in things like psocks (which has a ConnectionLayerVtable containing only one non-NULL method), but less dramatically, it means that the new 'flags' field in BackendVtable can be completely left out of every backend definition except for the SUPDUP one which defines it to a nonzero value. Similarly, the test_for_upstream method only used by SSH doesn't have to be mentioned in the rest of the backends; network Plugs for listening sockets don't have to explicitly null out 'receive' and 'sent', and vice versa for 'accepting', and so on. While I'm at it, I've normalised the declarations so they don't use the unnecessarily verbose 'struct' keyword. Also a handful of them weren't const; now they are.
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- Feb 07, 2020
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Simon Tatham authored
Now I've got an enum for PlugLogType, it's easier to add things to it. We were giving a blow-by-blow account of each connection attempt, and when it failed, saying what went wrong before we moved on to the next candidate address, but when one finally succeeded, we never logged _that_. Now we do.
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- Sep 08, 2019
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Simon Tatham authored
The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects. So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the time. While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one way or the other). Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
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- Feb 06, 2019
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Simon Tatham authored
This is a general cleanup which has been overdue for some time: lots of length fields are now the machine word type rather than the (in practice) fixed 'int'.
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Simon Tatham authored
plug_receive(), sftp_senddata() and handle_gotdata() in particular now take const pointers. Also fixed 'char *receive_data' in struct ProxySocket.
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- Nov 03, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
My normal habit these days, in new code, is to treat int and bool as _almost_ completely separate types. I'm still willing to use C's implicit test for zero on an integer (e.g. 'if (!blob.len)' is fine, no need to spell it out as blob.len != 0), but generally, if a variable is going to be conceptually a boolean, I like to declare it bool and assign to it using 'true' or 'false' rather than 0 or 1. PuTTY is an exception, because it predates the C99 bool, and I've stuck to its existing coding style even when adding new code to it. But it's been annoying me more and more, so now that I've decided C99 bool is an acceptable thing to require from our toolchain in the first place, here's a quite thorough trawl through the source doing 'boolification'. Many variables and function parameters are now typed as bool rather than int; many assignments of 0 or 1 to those variables are now spelled 'true' or 'false'. I managed this thorough conversion with the help of a custom clang plugin that I wrote to trawl the AST and apply heuristics to point out where things might want changing. So I've even managed to do a decent job on parts of the code I haven't looked at in years! To make the plugin's work easier, I pushed platform front ends generally in the direction of using standard 'bool' in preference to platform-specific boolean types like Windows BOOL or GTK's gboolean; I've left the platform booleans in places they _have_ to be for the platform APIs to work right, but variables only used by my own code have been converted wherever I found them. In a few places there are int values that look very like booleans in _most_ of the places they're used, but have a rarely-used third value, or a distinction between different nonzero values that most users don't care about. In these cases, I've _removed_ uses of 'true' and 'false' for the return values, to emphasise that there's something more subtle going on than a simple boolean answer: - the 'multisel' field in dialog.h's list box structure, for which the GTK front end in particular recognises a difference between 1 and 2 but nearly everything else treats as boolean - the 'urgent' parameter to plug_receive, where 1 vs 2 tells you something about the specific location of the urgent pointer, but most clients only care about 0 vs 'something nonzero' - the return value of wc_match, where -1 indicates a syntax error in the wildcard. - the return values from SSH-1 RSA-key loading functions, which use -1 for 'wrong passphrase' and 0 for all other failures (so any caller which already knows it's not loading an _encrypted private_ key can treat them as boolean) - term->esc_query, and the 'query' parameter in toggle_mode in terminal.c, which _usually_ hold 0 for ESC[123h or 1 for ESC[?123h, but can also hold -1 for some other intervening character that we don't support. In a few places there's an integer that I haven't turned into a bool even though it really _can_ only take values 0 or 1 (and, as above, tried to make the call sites consistent in not calling those values true and false), on the grounds that I thought it would make it more confusing to imply that the 0 value was in some sense 'negative' or bad and the 1 positive or good: - the return value of plug_accepting uses the POSIXish convention of 0=success and nonzero=error; I think if I made it bool then I'd also want to reverse its sense, and that's a job for a separate piece of work. - the 'screen' parameter to lineptr() in terminal.c, where 0 and 1 represent the default and alternate screens. There's no obvious reason why one of those should be considered 'true' or 'positive' or 'success' - they're just indices - so I've left it as int. ssh_scp_recv had particularly confusing semantics for its previous int return value: its call sites used '<= 0' to check for error, but it never actually returned a negative number, just 0 or 1. Now the function and its call sites agree that it's a bool. In a couple of places I've renamed variables called 'ret', because I don't like that name any more - it's unclear whether it means the return value (in preparation) for the _containing_ function or the return value received from a subroutine call, and occasionally I've accidentally used the same variable for both and introduced a bug. So where one of those got in my way, I've renamed it to 'toret' or 'retd' (the latter short for 'returned') in line with my usual modern practice, but I haven't done a thorough job of finding all of them. Finally, one amusing side effect of doing this is that I've had to separate quite a few chained assignments. It used to be perfectly fine to write 'a = b = c = TRUE' when a,b,c were int and TRUE was just a the 'true' defined by stdbool.h, that idiom provokes a warning from gcc: 'suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value'!
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- Oct 06, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
I think that means that _every_ one of my traitoids is now a struct containing a vtable pointer as one of its fields (albeit sometimes the only field), and never just a bare pointer.
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Simon Tatham authored
Now they're all called FooVtable, instead of a mixture of that and Foo_vtable.
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- Oct 04, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
All the main backend structures - Ssh, Telnet, Pty, Serial etc - now describe structure types themselves rather than pointers to them. The same goes for the codebase-wide trait types Socket and Plug, and the supporting types SockAddr and Pinger. All those things that were typedefed as pointers are older types; the newer ones have the explicit * at the point of use, because that's what I now seem to be preferring. But whichever one of those is better, inconsistently using a mixture of the two styles is worse, so let's make everything consistent. A few types are still implicitly pointers, such as Bignum and some of the GSSAPI types; generally this is either because they have to be void *, or because they're typedefed differently on different platforms and aren't always pointers at all. Can't be helped. But I've got rid of the main ones, at least.
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- May 27, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
In the course of reworking the socket vtable system, I noticed that both sshshare.c and x11fwd.c independently invented the idea of a Plug none of whose methods do anything. We don't need more than one of those, so let's centralise the idea to somewhere it can be easily reused.
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