Re: [PATCH] pkl: Get rid of string literals as exception names

[Luca Saiu]

On 2022-01-30 at 15:55 +0330, Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor wrote:

> This problem expresses itself as a linker error on a x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04
> container.
> Linker complained about `strcpy`; which I reported on IRC (I know it's a not
> good platform for reporting bugs :D). But I wasn't sure what's the root of
> problem. And after fixing ARMv7, that linker error went away.

I see.

Maybe strcpy should be automatically wrapped.  I wonder whether it is
used behind the scenes for cloning large structs when passed by
arguments, for example.  I guess we will get experience with these
things when people actually use the system.

>
> Yet another reason for not spoting this problem until recently, is my 
> workflow;
> in which I only use switch-dispatching. Because it's very 
> debug/debugger-friendly.
> (I'm not sure about Jose).

You are right about this, and I will document this as a suggestion for
development.  Direct-threading should be just as friendly, even if it
depends on GNU C -- minimal-threading and no-threading are definitely
not friendly to gdb.

Thanks,

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