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Message-ID: <20130208223058.GB16520@openwall.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 02:30:58 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: C for dummies
magnum, Jim -
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:18:07PM -0600, jfoug wrote:
> From: magnum [mailto:john.magnum@...hmail.com]
> >In common.c we have several lines like this:
> >
> >char itoa16u[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
> >
> >Is this a bug or not?
As I found out previously:
In C, no. In C++, yes.
In OpenCL, I don't know.
> That is a bug. I have had to make 'changes' for other build environments,
> when taking code from Jtr. I am not really sure HOW it builds properly in
> Jtr.
>
> I would much rather see this as
> const char itoa16u[] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
>
> OR
> const char itoa16u[16] =
> {'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','A','B','C','D','E','F'};
>
> if we had to maintain sizeof(itoa16u) == 16 for something.
You have to do this (or just let the size be 17) in C++.
> I also do not know why compilers were not complaining. When I cut those
> lines out and put them into other packages, (like the recent wpapcap2john
> project), I did get compiler errors about too many elements, and had to
> change the var declaration.
I guess your other packages are C++.
For example, in crypt_blowfish I actually changed (many years ago) the
declaration of BF_itoa64 to include room for the NUL, to accommodate
people reusing this source file in C++ projects.
However, in passwdqc I deliberately keep the _passwdqc_wordset_4k[]
array without room for the NULs. Including the NULs would waste 4 KB.
char _passwdqc_wordset_4k[0x1000][6] = {
"Adam",
[...]
Obviously, passwdqc builds with many C compilers and works just fine.
It's a feature, not a bug.
As to the addition of const, I fully agree - we should be adding them in
such places.
Alexander
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