- 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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- 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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Simon Tatham authored
This commit includes <stdbool.h> from defs.h and deletes my traditional definitions of TRUE and FALSE, but other than that, it's a 100% mechanical search-and-replace transforming all uses of TRUE and FALSE into the C99-standardised lowercase spellings. No actual types are changed in this commit; that will come next. This is just getting the noise out of the way, so that subsequent commits can have a higher proportion of signal.
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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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- Sep 24, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
In order to list cross-certifiable host keys in the GUI specials menu, the SSH backend has been inventing new values on the end of the Telnet_Special enumeration, starting from the value TS_LOCALSTART. This is inelegant, and also makes it awkward to break up special handlers (e.g. to dispatch different specials to different SSH layers), since if all you know about a special is that it's somewhere in the TS_LOCALSTART+n space, you can't tell what _general kind_ of thing it is. Also, if I ever need another open-ended set of specials in future, I'll have to remember which TS_LOCALSTART+n codes are in which set. So here's a revamp that causes every special to take an extra integer argument. For all previously numbered specials, this argument is passed as zero and ignored, but there's a new main special code for SSH host key cross-certification, in which the integer argument is an index into the backend's list of available keys. TS_LOCALSTART is now a thing of the past: if I need any other open-ended sets of specials in future, I can add a new top-level code with a nicely separated space of arguments. While I'm at it, I've removed the legacy misnomer 'Telnet_Special' from the code completely; the enum is now SessionSpecialCode, the struct containing full details of a menu entry is SessionSpecial, and the enum values now start SS_ rather than TS_.
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- Sep 19, 2018
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Simon Tatham authored
Nearly every part of the code that ever handles a full backend structure has historically done it using a pair of pointer variables, one pointing at a constant struct full of function pointers, and the other pointing to a 'void *' state object that's passed to each of those. While I'm modernising the rest of the code, this seems like a good time to turn that into the same more or less type-safe and less cumbersome system as I'm using for other parts of the code, such as Socket, Plug, BinaryPacketProtocol and so forth: the Backend structure contains a vtable pointer, and a system of macro wrappers handles dispatching through that vtable.
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- Apr 02, 2016
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Simon Tatham authored
A compiler warning drew my attention to the fact that 'next' in pinger_schedule() was an int, not the unsigned long it should have been. And looking at the code that handles it, it was also taking no care with integer wraparound when checking whether an existing scheduled ping should be moved forward. So now I do something a bit more robust, by remembering what time it _was_ when we set pinger->next, and checking if the new time value falls in the interval between those two times.
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- Sep 18, 2012
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Ben Harris authored
First, make absolute times unsigned. This means that it's safe to depend on their overflow behaviour (which is undefined for signed integers). This requires a little extra care in handling comparisons, but I think I've correctly adjusted them all. Second, functions registered with schedule_timer() are guaranteed to be called with precisely the time that was returned by schedule_timer(). Thus, it's only necessary to check these values for equality rather than doing risky range checks, so do that. The timing code still does lots that's undefined, unnecessary, or just wrong, but this is a good start. [originally from svn r9667]
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- Jul 14, 2011
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Simon Tatham authored
'Config' in putty.h, which stores all PuTTY's settings and includes an arbitrary length limit on every single one of those settings which is stored in string form. In place of it is 'Conf', an opaque data type everywhere outside the new file conf.c, which stores a list of (key, value) pairs in which every key contains an integer identifying a configuration setting, and for some of those integers the key also contains extra parts (so that, for instance, CONF_environmt is a string-to-string mapping). Everywhere that a Config was previously used, a Conf is now; everywhere there was a Config structure copy, conf_copy() is called; every lookup, adjustment, load and save operation on a Config has been rewritten; and there's a mechanism for serialising a Conf into a binary blob and back for use with Duplicate Session. User-visible effects of this change _should_ be minimal, though I don't doubt I've introduced one or two bugs here and there which will eventually be found. The _intended_ visible effects of this change are that all arbitrary limits on configuration strings and lists (e.g. limit on number of port forwardings) should now disappear; that list boxes in the configuration will now be displayed in a sorted order rather than the arbitrary order in which they were added to the list (since the underlying data structure is now a sorted tree234 rather than an ad-hoc comma-separated string); and one more specific change, which is that local and dynamic port forwardings on the same port number are now mutually exclusive in the configuration (putting 'D' in the key rather than the value was a mistake in the first place). One other reorganisation as a result of this is that I've moved all the dialog.c standard handlers (dlg_stdeditbox_handler and friends) out into config.c, because I can't really justify calling them generic any more. When they took a pointer to an arbitrary structure type and the offset of a field within that structure, they were independent of whether that structure was a Config or something completely different, but now they really do expect to talk to a Conf, which can _only_ be used for PuTTY configuration, so I've renamed them all things like conf_editbox_handler and moved them out of the nominally independent dialog-box management module into the PuTTY-specific config.c. [originally from svn r9214]
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- Nov 27, 2004
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Simon Tatham authored
which pretty much any module can call to request a call-back in the future. So terminal.c can do its own handling of blinking, visual bells and deferred screen updates, without having to rely on term_update() being called 50 times a second (fixes: pterm-timer); and ssh.c and telnet.c both invoke a new module pinger.c which takes care of sending keepalives, so they get sent uniformly in all front ends (fixes: plink-keepalives, unix-keepalives). [originally from svn r4906] [this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
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