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Re: libidn2 support
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Tim Ruehsen |
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Re: libidn2 support |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:55:21 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 8:59:39 AM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Den Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:03:04 +0100
>
> skrev Re: libidn2 support:
> > On Monday, December 5, 2016 10:00:32 AM CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > Hi again. I have added you now. There is no real work going on
> > > with libidn2, but Hanno Böck said he may have found more
> > > security vulnerabilities, so it would be nice to be able to do a
> > > quick security release if needed. Therefor, it appears preferrable
> > > to push your stuff to a branch meanwhile. I'm happy to review when
> > > it is on a branch, and hopefully we can make test releases from the
> > > branch too.
> >
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > just put my stuff into 4 different branches within your Gitlab repo.
>
> Hi Tim. Yay!
>
> > Please review/merge in this order:
> Very good to split things up, thank you. Let's try to do low-hanging
> fruit one at a time.
>
> > # branch 'fixes'
> > - fix two crashes in lookup and register functions
> > - avoid tainting insertname/lookupname on error
>
> Can you write self-tests that trigger these issues? That makes it much
> easier to evaluate the patches.
>
> > - use binary search instead of linear search in idna table
>
> How much do the table grow by adding UNASSIGNED code points to the
> library size? I like the patch in general, but I am concerned that it
> adds a lot of static size to the library. Is having the UNASSIGNED
> code points in the idna_table array really necessary? It seems your
> search function results UNASSIGNED if result==NULL anyway? I don't
> recall if there is any semantic difference between a code point that is
> UNASSIGNED and a code point that does not have any property at all.
I chose a different table setup (pushed -f to 'tr46') which reduces static
data size from 750k to ~35k. So together with removing the UNASSIGNED entries
from the IDNA table (data.c), the library size reduces from 223352 (Debian
libidn2 0.11) to 195952, both stripped :-)
Regards, Tim
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- Re: libidn2 support, Simon Josefsson, 2016/12/01
- Re: libidn2 support, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/12/01
- Re: libidn2 support, Simon Josefsson, 2016/12/05
- Re: libidn2 support, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/12/06
- Re: libidn2 support, Simon Josefsson, 2016/12/07
- Re: libidn2 support, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/12/07
- Re: libidn2 support, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/12/07
- Re: libidn2 support, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/12/08
- Re: libidn2 support, Simon Josefsson, 2016/12/26
- Re: libidn2 support,
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