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Re: [PATCH 7/9] posix: Consolidate glob implementation
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 12 2017, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> > Does this mean we don't have any tests that verify a call to glob64 can be
> > linked (and works)? If so, such tests should be added (generally, all
> > non-compat symbols ought to be tested).
>
> It's a long standing bug that we don't verify the API. See the various
> incidences about missing symbols on some architectures.
Well, I think of it as a large number of bugs that some symbol X is
missing test coverage. In general, each of those bugs can be addressed
independently by adding a test or tests of an untested interface. See
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-07/msg00386.html> for some
scripts I used to produce a list of untested symbols. Ideally, everything
in the API would indeed be tested and documented.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com