From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3343 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: patch: make the size of errbuf configurable Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:36:05 +0200 Message-ID: <519945C5.30106@gentoo.org> References: <5199324A.7020805@eservices.virginia.edu> <20130519210509.GA1075@port70.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368999364 27116 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2013 21:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:36:04 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3347-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun May 19 23:36:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UeBGu-00085l-DU for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 23:36:04 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17525 invoked by uid 550); 19 May 2013 21:36:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17516 invoked from network); 19 May 2013 21:36:03 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <20130519210509.GA1075@port70.net> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3343 Archived-At: On 05/19/2013 11:05 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > * Z. Gilboa [2013-05-19 16:12:58 -0400]: >> When a shared library that resides in a deeply nested folder >> contains unresolved (long-named, mangled) symbols, the displayed >> name of the library and/or symbol might get truncated. The attached >> patch makes the size of errbuf (ldso/dynlink.c) configurable >> (--with-ld-errbuf-size), while yet leaving the default size of 128 >> unaffected. > > i dont think this is the best place to start adding configurations > > i'd prefer simply increasing the buffer if this is an issue > > c++ mangled names can get pretty insane, i just checked my system > check boost-spirit for the most amazing results (we are talking kilobytes for a single symbol) lu