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previously, getdelim was allocating twice the space needed every time
it expanded its buffer to implement exponential buffer growth (in
order to avoid quadratic run time). however, this doubling was
performed even when the final buffer length needed was already known,
which is the common case that occurs whenever the delimiter is in the
FILE's buffer.
this patch makes two changes to remedy the situation:
1. over-allocation is no longer performed if the delimiter has already
been found when realloc is needed.
2. growth factor is reduced from 2x to 1.5x to reduce the relative
excess allocation in cases where the delimiter is not initially in the
buffer, including unbuffered streams.
in theory these changes could lead to quadratic time if the same
buffer is reused to process a sequence of lines successively
increasing in length, but once this length exceeds the stdio buffer
size, the delimiter will not be found in the buffer right away and
exponential growth will still kick in.
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getdelim was updating *n, the caller's stored buffer size, before
calling realloc. if getdelim then failed due to realloc failure, the
caller would see in *n a value larger than the actual size of the
allocated block, and use of that value is unsafe. in particular,
passing it again to getdelim is unsafe.
now, temporary storage is used for the desired new size, and *n is not
written until realloc succeeds.
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the buffer enlargement logic here accounted for the terminating null
byte, but not for the possibility of hitting the delimiter in the
buffer-refill code path that uses getc_unlocked, in which case two
additional bytes (the delimiter and the null termination) are written
without another chance to enlarge the buffer.
this patch and the corresponding bug report are by Felix Janda.
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this header evolved to facilitate the extremely lazy practice of
omitting explicit includes of the necessary headers in individual
stdio source files; not only was this sloppy, but it also increased
build time.
now, stdio_impl.h is only including the headers it needs for its own
use; any further headers needed by source files are included directly
where needed.
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to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
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for some nonsensical reason, glibc's headers use inline functions that
redirect some of the standard functions to ugly nonstandard names (and
likewise for some of their nonstandard functions).
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the biggest change in this commit is that stdio now uses readv to fill
the caller's buffer and the FILE buffer with a single syscall, and
likewise writev to flush the FILE buffer and write out the caller's
buffer in a single syscall.
making this change required fundamental architectural changes to
stdio, so i also made a number of other improvements in the process:
- the implementation no longer assumes that further io will fail
following errors, and no longer blocks io when the error flag is set
(though the latter could easily be changed back if desired)
- unbuffered mode is no longer implemented as a one-byte buffer. as a
consequence, scanf unreading has to use ungetc, to the unget buffer
has been enlarged to hold at least 2 wide characters.
- the FILE structure has been rearranged to maintain the locations of
the fields that might be used in glibc getc/putc type macros, while
shrinking the structure to save some space.
- error cases for fflush, fseek, etc. should be more correct.
- library-internal macros are used for getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked
now, eliminating some ugly code duplication. __uflow and __overflow
are no longer used anywhere but these macros. switch to read or
write mode is also separated so the code can be better shared, e.g.
with ungetc.
- lots of other small things.
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