Posts for May 2022

2022-05-08: C TAP Harness 4.8

C TAP Harness is my C implementation of the Perl "Test Anything Protocol" test suite framework. It includes test runner and libraries for both C and shell.

This is mostly a cleanup release to resync with other utility libraries. It does fix an installation problem by managing symlinks correctly, and adds support for GCC 11's new deallocation warnings.

The latter is a rather interesting new GCC feature. There is a Red Hat blog post about the implementation with more details, but the short version is that the __malloc__ attribute can now take an argument that specifies the function that should be used to deallocate the allocated object. GCC 11 and later can use that information to catch some deallocation bugs, such as deallocating things with the wrong function.

You can get the latest version from the C TAP Harness distribution page.

2022-05-08 21:26 — Permanent link

2022-05-08: rra-c-util 10.2

rra-c-util is my collection of utility functions, mostly but not entirely for C, that I use with my various software releases.

There are two major changes in this release. The first is Autoconf support for PCRE2, the new version of the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library (PCRE1 is now deprecated), which was the motivation for a new release. The second is a huge update to the Perl formatting rules due to lots of work by Julien ÉLIE for INN.

This release also tags deallocation functions, similar to the change mentioned for C TAP Harness 4.8, for all the utility libraries provided by rra-c-util, and fixes an issue with the systemd support.

You can get the latest version from the rra-c-util distribution page.

2022-05-08 21:43 — Permanent link

2022-05-08: remctl 3.18

remctl is a simple RPC mechanism using Kerberos GSS-API authentication (or SSH authentication).

The primary change in this release, and the reason for the release, is to add support for PCRE2, the latest version of the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, since PCRE1 is now deprecated.

This release also improves some documentation, marks the allocation functions in the C client library with deallocation functions for GCC 11, and fixes some issues with the Python and Ruby bindings that were spotted by Ken Dreyer, as well as the normal update of portability support.

I still do plan to move the language bindings into separate packages, since this will make it easier to upload them to their per-language module repositories and that, in turn, will make them easier to use, but this version doesn't have those changes. I wanted to flush the portability changes and PCRE update out first before starting that project.

You can get the latest version from the remctl distribution page.

2022-05-08 21:49 — Permanent link