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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ron Yorston
95fec31be6 libbb: restore special handling of nomsg errors
The functions bb_perror_nomsg() and bb_perror_nomsg_and_die() are
used to print error messages where no specific information is
available.  For example:

   $ busybox mktemp -p /
   mktemp: (null): Permission denied

mktemp(3) doesn't tell us the name of the file it tried to create.

However, printing '(null)' is a regression introduced by commit
6937487be (libbb: reduce the overhead of single parameter bb_error_msg()
calls).  Restore the previous behaviour by reverting the changes to
the two functions mentioned:

   $ busybox mktemp -p /
   mktemp: Permission denied

function                                             old     new   delta
bb_perror_nomsg_and_die                                7      14      +7
bb_perror_nomsg                                        7      14      +7
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(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 14/0)               Total: 14 bytes

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2022-06-26 17:17:02 +02:00
James Byrne
6937487be7 libbb: reduce the overhead of single parameter bb_error_msg() calls
Back in 2007, commit 0c97c9d437 ("'simple' error message functions by
Loic Grenie") introduced bb_simple_perror_msg() to allow for a lower
overhead call to bb_perror_msg() when only a string was being printed
with no parameters. This saves space for some CPU architectures because
it avoids the overhead of a call to a variadic function. However there
has never been a simple version of bb_error_msg(), and since 2007 many
new calls to bb_perror_msg() have been added that only take a single
parameter and so could have been using bb_simple_perror_message().

This changeset introduces 'simple' versions of bb_info_msg(),
bb_error_msg(), bb_error_msg_and_die(), bb_herror_msg() and
bb_herror_msg_and_die(), and replaces all calls that only take a
single parameter, or use something like ("%s", arg), with calls to the
corresponding 'simple' version.

Since it is likely that single parameter calls to the variadic functions
may be accidentally reintroduced in the future a new debugging config
option WARN_SIMPLE_MSG has been introduced. This uses some macro magic
which will cause any such calls to generate a warning, but this is
turned off by default to avoid use of the unpleasant macros in normal
circumstances.

This is a large changeset due to the number of calls that have been
replaced. The only files that contain changes other than simple
substitution of function calls are libbb.h, libbb/herror_msg.c,
libbb/verror_msg.c and libbb/xfuncs_printf.c. In miscutils/devfsd.c,
networking/udhcp/common.h and util-linux/mdev.c additonal macros have
been added for logging so that single parameter and multiple parameter
logging variants exist.

The amount of space saved varies considerably by architecture, and was
found to be as follows (for 'defconfig' using GCC 7.4):

Arm:     -92 bytes
MIPS:    -52 bytes
PPC:   -1836 bytes
x86_64: -938 bytes

Note that for the MIPS architecture only an exception had to be made
disabling the 'simple' calls for 'udhcp' (in networking/udhcp/common.h)
because it made these files larger on MIPS.

Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@origamienergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2019-07-02 11:35:03 +02:00
Denys Vlasenko
0ef64bdb40 *: make GNU licensing statement forms more regular
This change retains "or later" state! No licensing _changes_ here,
only form is adjusted (article, space between "GPL" and "v2" and so on).

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2010-08-16 20:14:46 +02:00
Denis Vlasenko
defc1ea340 *: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-on
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 808035     611    6868  815514   c719a busybox_old
 804472     611    6868  811951   c63af busybox_unstripped
2008-06-27 02:52:20 +00:00
Denis Vlasenko
769d1e05e6 fix warning from needlessly-global functions 2007-01-22 23:04:27 +00:00
Denis Vlasenko
666da5e2c6 merge post-1.3.0 fixes 2006-12-26 18:17:42 +00:00
"Robert P. J. Day"
5d8843e451 Replace current verbose GPL stuff in libbb/*.c with one-line GPL boilerplate. 2006-07-10 11:41:19 +00:00
Rob Landley
dfba741457 Robert P. Day removed 8 gazillion occurrences of "extern" on function
definitions.  (That should only be on prototypes.)
2006-03-06 20:47:33 +00:00
Manuel Novoa III
cad5364599 Major coreutils update. 2003-03-19 09:13:01 +00:00