Use a proper C tokenizer to implement the obsolete typedefs test.

The test for obsolete typedefs in installed headers was implemented
using grep, and could therefore get false positives on e.g. “ulong”
in a comment.  It was also scanning all of the headers included by
our headers, and therefore testing headers we don’t control, e.g.
Linux kernel headers.

This patch splits the obsolete-typedef test from
scripts/check-installed-headers.sh to a separate program,
scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py.  Being implemented in Python,
it is feasible to make it tokenize C accurately enough to avoid false
positives on the contents of comments and strings.  It also only
examines $(headers) in each subdirectory--all the headers we install,
but not any external dependencies of those headers.  Headers whose
installed name starts with finclude/ are ignored, on the assumption
that they contain Fortran.

It is also feasible to make the new test understand the difference
between _defining_ the obsolete typedefs and _using_ the obsolete
typedefs, which means posix/{bits,sys}/types.h no longer need to be
exempted.  This uncovered an actual bug in bits/types.h: __quad_t and
__u_quad_t were being used to define __S64_TYPE, __U64_TYPE,
__SQUAD_TYPE and __UQUAD_TYPE.  These are changed to __int64_t and
__uint64_t respectively.  This is a safe change, despite the comments
in bits/types.h claiming a difference between __quad_t and __int64_t,
because those comments are incorrect.  In all current ABIs, both
__quad_t and __int64_t are ‘long’ when ‘long’ is a 64-bit type, and
‘long long’ when ‘long’ is a 32-bit type, and similarly for __u_quad_t
and __uint64_t.  (Changing the types to be what the comments say they
are would be an ABI break, as it affects C++ name mangling.)  This
patch includes a minimal change to make the comments not completely
wrong.

sys/types.h was defining the legacy BSD u_intN_t typedefs using a
construct that was not necessarily consistent with how the C99 uintN_t
typedefs are defined, and is also too complicated for the new script to
understand (it lexes C relatively accurately, but it does not attempt
to expand preprocessor macros, nor does it do any actual parsing).
This patch cuts all of that out and uses bits/types.h's __uintN_t typedefs
to define u_intN_t instead.  This is verified to not change the ABI on
any supported architecture, via the c++-types test, which means u_intN_t
and uintN_t were, in fact, consistent on all supported architectures.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

	* scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py: New test script.
	* scripts/check-installed-headers.sh: Remove tests for
	obsolete typedefs, superseded by check-obsolete-constructs.py.
	* Rules: Run scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py over $(headers)
	as a special test.  Update commentary.
	* posix/bits/types.h (__SQUAD_TYPE, __S64_TYPE): Define as __int64_t.
	(__UQUAD_TYPE, __U64_TYPE): Define as __uint64_t.
	Update commentary.
	* posix/sys/types.h (__u_intN_t): Remove.
	(u_int8_t): Typedef using __uint8_t.
	(u_int16_t): Typedef using __uint16_t.
	(u_int32_t): Typedef using __uint32_t.
	(u_int64_t): Typedef using __uint64_t.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Rules b/Rules
index e08a28d9f3..222dba6dcb 100644
--- a/Rules
+++ b/Rules
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ $(common-objpfx)dummy.c:
 common-generated += dummy.o dummy.c
 
 ifneq "$(headers)" ""
-# Special test of all the installed headers in this directory.
+# Test that all of the headers installed by this directory can be compiled
+# in isolation.
 tests-special += $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-c.out
 libof-check-installed-headers-c := testsuite
 $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-c.out: \
@@ -93,6 +94,8 @@ $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-c.out: \
 	$(evaluate-test)
 
 ifneq "$(CXX)" ""
+# If a C++ compiler is available, also test that they can be compiled
+# in isolation as C++.
 tests-special += $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-cxx.out
 libof-check-installed-headers-cxx := testsuite
 $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-cxx.out: \
@@ -103,12 +106,24 @@ $(objpfx)check-installed-headers-cxx.out: \
 	$(evaluate-test)
 endif # $(CXX)
 
+# Test that a wrapper header exists in include/ for each non-sysdeps header.
+# This script does not need $(py-env).
 tests-special += $(objpfx)check-wrapper-headers.out
 $(objpfx)check-wrapper-headers.out: \
   $(..)scripts/check-wrapper-headers.py $(headers)
 	$(PYTHON) $< --root=$(..) --subdir=$(subdir) $(headers) > $@; \
 	  $(evaluate-test)
 
+# Test that none of the headers installed by this directory use certain
+# obsolete constructs (e.g. legacy BSD typedefs superseded by stdint.h).
+# This script does not need $(py-env).
+tests-special += $(objpfx)check-obsolete-constructs.out
+libof-check-obsolete-constructs := testsuite
+$(objpfx)check-obsolete-constructs.out: \
+    $(..)scripts/check-obsolete-constructs.py $(headers)
+	$(PYTHON) $^ > $@ 2>&1; \
+	$(evaluate-test)
+
 endif # $(headers)
 
 # This makes all the auxiliary and test programs.