On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 03:07:51PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > +uint32_t
> > > +typeinfo_get_hash (tree type)
> > > +{
> > > +  gcc_assert (type != NULL_TREE);
> > > +  uint32_t hash_state = 2166136261U; /* FNV-1a 32-bit offset basis.  */
> > > +
> > > +  mangle_type (type, nullptr, &hash_state);
> > > +  return hash_state;
> > > +}
> >
> > It might make sense to do a few self_test here instead of (in addition
> > to) having a testcase.
> > This way the testing is done earlier.
>
> I tried to do this back in v2 and could not make it work. See [1] for
> more details on what I found, but basically I don't have access to the
> parser itself in the selftests, so I couldn't build end-to-end testing
> of arbitrary C (testing node types isn't really a sufficient test in my
> view). I could to basic type tests, but it would be redundant to what
> I ended up with in dg, and I didn't want to split up the testing.

I am asking for self-tests of the API and not depending on the C
parser. So generating some FUNCTION_TYPE types and then getting back
the hash and/or name.

> (testing node types isn't really a sufficient test in my view)
It might not be a fully sufficient test in itself; it does not mean it
is NOT a useful test to have. This is why I mentioned in addition to.
Testing the API outside of the end-to-end testing is a good thing and
can find bugs early on.  GCC does not have enough self-tests really
and folks don't use it as much as we should.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> If I'm missing some other way to do this, I'd be happy to give it a shot!
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/[email protected]/
>
> --
> Kees Cook

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