On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 07:07:57PM +0200, наб wrote:
> Package: cproto
> Version: 4.7x-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm trying to work around some explosive source code (src:tgif 1:4.2.5-2)
> with something like
> cproto -E 'cpp' -D'ARGS_DECL(...)=__VA_ARGS__' -{P,F,C}"int f(a, b)" -a
> exec.c
>
> Quoth cproto(1):
> -E cpp Pipe the input files through the specified C preprocessor command
> when generating prototypes. By default, the program uses /lib/cpp....actually the manpage could be improved, to show the actual compiled-in default. > -E 0 Do not run the C preprocessor. > > This doesn't appear to hold at all. /lib/cpp isn't a valid preprocessor, > but even supplying -E cpp or -E /bin/cpp I see no preprocessing happen > (and don't see an execve() in strace at all). cproto's using popen. (I agree, it should re-escape/re-quote parameters -- it seems that noone's recently bit on this). > It looks like -E working at all is guarded on #ifdef CPP? > It would be nice, for future readers, to say "-E ... ignored", these two lines are unclear > if this is intended. > > Best, > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 12.11 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, > 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, > TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages cproto depends on: > ii gcc 4:12.2.0-3 > ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10 > > cproto recommends no packages. > > cproto suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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