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Closes what was left of TODO.md sections 1, 2 and 3, and rewrites that
file to hold outstanding items only.

The API break gets a minor bump, because pre-1.0 the soname carries
MAJOR.MINOR and 0.1 and 0.2 are therefore different ABIs. Five
signatures changed and the ato* contract with them; UPGRADING.md is new
and lists every one, with the before/after for the cases the compiler
cannot warn about.

Section 3.1 is finished: reallocarray with the multiplication checked,
aligned_alloc and posix_memalign, asprintf/vasprintf, scanf/vscanf.
Four functions on that list are deliberately absent rather than missing
-- sprintf, strtok, setbuf and perror -- and TODO.md now says which and
why, so nobody adds them thinking they were forgotten.

Section 1.9, the cross-cutting tests:

  tests/test_pool.c    drives every failure path AKERR_MAX_ARRAY_ERROR
                       + 10 times and checks the pool after each round,
                       because a wrapper that leaks a slot fails a
                       hundred calls later in unrelated code. It also
                       asserts that each error names the function and
                       file it was raised from, which is what catches a
                       FAIL that migrates into a helper during a
                       refactor: status right, message right, origin
                       quietly lying.
  tests/negative/      two sources that must FAIL to compile, built with
                       -Werror and registered WILL_FAIL. AKERR_NOIGNORE
                       and the format attributes are enforced by the
                       compiler and by nothing else; drop either and
                       every ordinary test still passes.

Thread safety is answered rather than tested: the library is not
thread-safe and cannot be made so from here, because libakerror's error
pool is an unlocked process-global array. README.md says so plainly and
TODO.md carries it as the item blocking any future pthread wrappers.

Doxygen is configured and gated. All 147 public functions have @brief,
a @param each, @throws per status and @return; EXTRACT_ALL is off and
WARN_NO_PARAMDOC on, so `cmake --build build --target docs` fails on an
undocumented entity. It ran to 0 warnings. The Doxyfile carries no
version -- cmake/RunDoxygen.cmake feeds PROJECT_NUMBER in from
project(), so that stays the one place a version is written.

CI now builds against the submodule it pins instead of also installing
libakerror@main and never linking it, adds -Werror, and gains a
sanitizer job. The pre-push hook matches, and runs the docs check too.

Coverage: 99.5% of lines (1643/1651), 100% of functions (147/147). The
eight uncovered lines are each uncovered on purpose and TODO.md says
which and why.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`libakstdlib` wraps C standard library functions so that they report failures
through [libakerror](https://source.starfort.tech/andrew/libakerror)'s
`ATTEMPT { ... } HANDLE { ... }` error contexts instead of through return codes
and `errno`. It also provides a few data structures built on the same
convention (a doubly-linked list and a binary tree).
and `errno`. It also provides data structures built on the same convention.
Every entry point returns `akerr_ErrorContext *` and is marked `AKERR_NOIGNORE`.
See `TODO.md` for the current state of the library: what is covered by tests,
which corner cases are still open, and which libc functions are not yet wrapped.
See `TODO.md` for the current state of the library and `UPGRADING.md` if you are
coming from 0.1.0, which this release breaks.
## What it wraps
| Area | Source | Functions |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | `src/stdlib.c` | `malloc` `calloc` `realloc` `free` `freep` `memset` `memcpy` `memmove` `memcmp` `memchr` |
| Formatted output | `src/stdlib.c` | `printf` `fprintf` `snprintf` and their `v*` forms |
| String → number | `src/stdlib.c` | `strtol` `strtoll` `strtoul` `strtoull` `strtod` `strtof` `strtold`, and `atoi` `atol` `atoll` `atof` on top of them |
| Paths and hashing | `src/stdlib.c` | `realpath` `realpath_alloc` `strhash_djb2` `strhash_djb2_str` |
| Strings | `src/string.c` | `strlen` `strnlen` `strcpy` `strncpy` `strcat` `strncat` `strdup` `strndup` `strcmp` `strncmp` `strcasecmp` `strncasecmp` `strcoll` `strchr` `strrchr` `strstr` `strcasestr` `strpbrk` `strspn` `strcspn` `strtok_r` `strsep` `strerror` |
| Streams | `src/stream.c` | `fopen` `fread` `fwrite` `fclose` `fseek` `ftell` `rewind` `fseeko` `ftello` `fgetpos` `fsetpos` `fflush` `setvbuf` `fgetc` `fputc` `ungetc` `fgets` `fputs` `getline` `getdelim` `feof` `ferror` `clearerr` `fileno` `freopen` `fdopen` `tmpfile` `sscanf` `fscanf` `remove` `rename` `mkstemp` `mkdtemp` |
| Collections | `src/collections.c` | doubly-linked list (bare-node and tracked-container forms), binary search tree, breadth- and depth-first traversal, fixed-capacity hash map, growable string buffer, FNV-1a |
### Where it deviates from libc, and why
The whole point is to make silent failures loud, so several wrappers are
deliberately stricter than the function they are named for. These are the ones
that will surprise you:
| Wrapper | Deviation |
|---|---|
| `aksl_free(NULL)` | `AKERR_NULLPOINTER`. `free(NULL)` is legal and does nothing; in a codebase that routes every allocation through `aksl_malloc`, a pointer you believed was live turning out NULL means something upstream did not happen. |
| `aksl_malloc(0, &p)` | `AKERR_VALUE`. There is nothing useful to hand back, and `malloc(0)` returning NULL without setting `errno` is how an error with status `0` used to get raised. |
| `aksl_atoi` and friends | Report bad conversions. `atoi(3)` has no error channel at all: junk converts to `0` and overflow wraps. Base 10, whole string, `ERANGE` on overflow. |
| `aksl_strcpy` / `strncpy` / `strcat` / `strncat` | Take the destination's size, which the libc originals cannot be called safely without. Truncation is `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS` and writes nothing. `aksl_strncpy` always terminates and never NUL-pads. |
| `aksl_snprintf` | Truncation is `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`, not a short success. There is no `aksl_sprintf`: an error-handling wrapper around an unbounded write is the sharp edge this library exists to remove. |
| `aksl_memcpy` | Overlapping ranges are `AKERR_VALUE` rather than undefined behaviour. Use `aksl_memmove`. |
| `aksl_fread` / `aksl_fwrite` | Require a transferred-count out-param, and report a short transfer with no stream error as `AKERR_IO` rather than as success. |
| `aksl_sscanf` / `aksl_fscanf` | Take the number of conversions you expect. Comparing `scanf(3)`'s return against that by hand at every call site is the check everyone eventually forgets. |
| `aksl_realpath` | Takes the destination's length and refuses anything below `PATH_MAX`, because `realpath(3)` cannot be bounded. |
| `aksl_list_pop` | Takes the head by reference, because popping the head has to move it. |
| Searching (`strchr`, `strstr`, `memchr`, `aksl_list_find`, `aksl_hashmap_get`, …) | Finding nothing is **success** with a NULL or zero result, not an error. Absent is an ordinary answer. |
| `aksl_strtok` | Does not exist. `strtok(3)` keeps its state in a hidden static; use `aksl_strtok_r` or `aksl_strsep`. |
### Thread safety
**This library is not thread-safe, and cannot be made so from here.**
libakerror hands out error contexts from `AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR`, a process-global
array with no locking, and every entry point in this library takes a slot from it
on any failure path. Two threads raising errors concurrently can be handed the
same slot. `errno` is thread-local so the wrapped calls themselves are fine; the
error reporting is not.
There is no TSan test here because there is nothing to verify — the answer is
known and it is "no". Fixing it means locking or thread-local storage in
libakerror's pool, which is that library's decision to make; `TODO.md` §1.9
records it. Until then: confine libakstdlib calls to one thread, or serialise
them yourself.
The wrappers add no state of their own beyond that. `aksl_strtok_r` and
`aksl_strsep` keep their state in the caller's `saveptr`, and no function here
uses a static buffer.
## Building
@@ -27,27 +79,29 @@ package the parent provides instead.
### This library's own version
`libakstdlib` is at **0.1.0**. The version lives in exactly one place — the
`libakstdlib` is at **0.2.0**. The version lives in exactly one place — the
`project()` call in `CMakeLists.txt` — and flows from there into everything
else, so a bump is a one-line edit:
| Artifact | Value at 0.1.0 | From |
| Artifact | Value at 0.2.0 | From |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `AKSL_VERSION_MAJOR` / `_MINOR` / `_PATCH` | `0` / `1` / `0` | `include/akstdlib_version.h.in` |
| `AKSL_VERSION_STRING` | `"0.1.0"` | same |
| `AKSL_VERSION_NUMBER` | `100` | same |
| `AKSL_VERSION_SONAME` | `"0.1"` | same |
| shared library | `libakstdlib.so.0.1.0`, soname `libakstdlib.so.0.1` | `VERSION` / `SOVERSION` |
| `pkg-config --modversion akstdlib` | `0.1.0` | `akstdlib.pc` |
| `find_package(akstdlib 0.1)` | accepted; `0.2` and `1.0` refused | `akstdlibConfigVersion.cmake` |
| `AKSL_VERSION_MAJOR` / `_MINOR` / `_PATCH` | `0` / `2` / `0` | `include/akstdlib_version.h.in` |
| `AKSL_VERSION_STRING` | `"0.2.0"` | same |
| `AKSL_VERSION_NUMBER` | `200` | same |
| `AKSL_VERSION_SONAME` | `"0.2"` | same |
| shared library | `libakstdlib.so.0.2.0`, soname `libakstdlib.so.0.2` | `VERSION` / `SOVERSION` |
| `pkg-config --modversion akstdlib` | `0.2.0` | `akstdlib.pc` |
| `find_package(akstdlib 0.2)` | accepted; `0.1` and `1.0` refused | `akstdlibConfigVersion.cmake` |
`akstdlib_version.h` is **generated** — that is why there is no such file in the
source tree, only the `.in` template beside `akstdlib.h`. Don't hand-edit the
copy in your build directory; change the template or `project()`.
It is `0.x` deliberately. `TODO.md` §2.1 still records four confirmed defects
whose fixes change documented behaviour, so the API is not being promised yet.
While the major version is `0`, **the soname carries `MAJOR.MINOR`**: 0.1 and 0.2
It is `0.x` deliberately. The 0.1 → 0.2 bump was itself an ABI break — fixing the
confirmed defects changed five signatures and the `ato*` contract, all of it
listed in `UPGRADING.md` — and the API is not being promised until the wishlist
in `TODO.md` §3 has settled. While the major version is `0`, **the soname carries
`MAJOR.MINOR`**: 0.1 and 0.2
are different ABIs and the loader will not substitute one for the other. At 1.0
the soname becomes `MAJOR` alone — the `if(PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR EQUAL 0)` in
`CMakeLists.txt` and the matching `#if` in `tests/test_version.c` are the two
@@ -75,18 +129,18 @@ function that compares against the values baked into the library. Calling
`aksl_version_check()` with hand-written numbers defeats the whole mechanism.
Compatibility is defined as "same soname", so pre-1.0 both major and minor must
match and the patch level is ignored — a caller built against 0.1.0 keeps working
against 0.1.7, which is exactly the promise the shared soname makes.
match and the patch level is ignored — a caller built against 0.2.0 keeps working
against 0.2.7, which is exactly the promise the shared soname makes.
In normal use the soname catches the mismatch first, at load time, and the check
never fires. It earns its keep when the soname is bypassed: a hand-install that
drops a 0.2.0 build in under the 0.1 filename, or a package that strips
drops a 0.3.0 build in under the 0.2 filename, or a package that strips
versioning. Then the loader is happy and only the check notices:
```
compiled against : 0.1.0 (soname 0.1)
loaded : 0.2.0 (0.2.0)
MISMATCH DETECTED: compiled against libakstdlib 0.1.0, loaded 0.2.0 (soname 0.2)
compiled against : 0.2.0 (soname 0.2)
loaded : 0.3.0 (0.3.0)
MISMATCH DETECTED: compiled against libakstdlib 0.2.0, loaded 0.3.0 (soname 0.3)
```
### The libakerror version floor
@@ -144,11 +198,22 @@ assert on the status it returns, `aksl_temp_file()` for tests that need a real
file to work on, and an `AKSL_RUN()` driver that additionally fails any test which
leaks a slot from libakerror's error pool.
One file per area of the API: `convert` (the `ato*` family), `format` (the
`printf` family), `stream` (`fopen`/`fread`/`fwrite`/`fclose`), `path`
(`aksl_realpath`), `strhash`, `memory`, `linkedlist`, `tree`, and
`status_registry` (this library's side of the libakerror status-registry
contract — see "The libakerror version floor" above).
One file per area of the API: `memory`, `format` (the `printf` family), `convert`
(the `ato*` family) and `strto` (the family underneath it), `stream`
(`fopen`/`fread`/`fwrite`/`fclose`) and `streamio` (everything else in
`src/stream.c`), `string`, `path` (`aksl_realpath`), `strhash`, `linkedlist`,
`tree`, `collections` (the list and tree additions), `hashmap`, `strbuf`,
`version`, `status_registry` (this library's side of the libakerror
status-registry contract — see "The libakerror version floor" above), and `pool`.
`pool` is the odd one out: it asserts two cross-cutting properties rather than
any function's behaviour. Every failure path is driven `AKERR_MAX_ARRAY_ERROR + 10`
times with the pool checked after each round, because a wrapper that raises an
error and forgets to release it does not fail visibly — it fails a hundred-odd
calls later in whatever unrelated code asks for a slot next. And every error is
checked to name the function and file it was actually raised from, which is what
catches a `FAIL` that migrates into a shared helper during a refactor: the status
stays right, the message stays right, and the origin quietly starts lying.
To add a test, drop `tests/test_mything.c` in place and add `mything` to
`AKSL_TESTS` in `CMakeLists.txt`.
@@ -162,11 +227,21 @@ of them invert the meaning of "Passed":
| `AKSL_WILL_FAIL_TESTS` | Expected to abort by design — an unhandled error reaching `FINISH_NORETURN`, or a deliberate contract violation. Marked `WILL_FAIL`, so a non-zero exit is a pass. |
| `AKSL_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` | Assert the *correct* behaviour of a confirmed defect (see `TODO.md` §2.1). Also marked `WILL_FAIL`. |
So `ctest` reporting all green does **not** mean the library is defect-free — it
means the known-good tests passed and the known-bad ones are still failing in the
documented way. When a defect is fixed, its test starts passing, CTest reports it
as failed with *unexpectedly passed*, and that is the cue to move it from
`AKSL_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` into `AKSL_TESTS`.
**Both of those lists are currently empty**, which is the news: all six confirmed
defects in `TODO.md` §2.1 are fixed, and the four tests that used to sit in
`AKSL_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` are folded back into the tests for the things they
test, where they now have to keep passing rather than keep failing visibly. The
mechanism stays for the next one. When a defect is fixed its known-failing test
starts passing, CTest reports it as failed with *unexpectedly passed*, and that
is the cue to move it into `AKSL_TESTS`.
Two more entries, `negative_noignore` and `negative_format_mismatch`, are
compile-time assertions rather than programs. Each builds a source file under
`tests/negative/` with `-Werror` and is marked `WILL_FAIL`, so the test passes
only when the compile *fails*. They exist because `AKERR_NOIGNORE` and
`AKSL_PRINTF_FORMAT` are enforced by the compiler and by nothing else: drop
either attribute in a refactor and every test still passes, the library still
builds, and the guarantee just quietly stops existing.
Every test is capped with a 30-second CTest `TIMEOUT`. The list and tree code is
full of loops whose termination hangs on a single condition, so a bug of that
@@ -181,10 +256,19 @@ ctest --test-dir build-asan --output-on-failure
```
Builds the library, the tests and the vendored libakerror with ASan + UBSan and
`-fno-sanitize-recover=all`. Several of the open items in `TODO.md` §2 only
misbehave under instrumentation — the uninitialised `%s` in `aksl_realpath`, the
unbounded `vsprintf` behind `aksl_sprintf`, the missing `va_end` in the `printf`
family — so new tests for those should be run this way.
`-fno-sanitize-recover=all`. Three of the defects fixed in 0.2.0 only misbehaved
under instrumentation — the uninitialised `%s` in `aksl_realpath`'s error path,
the unbounded `vsprintf` behind the old `aksl_sprintf`, and the missing `va_end`
in the `printf` family — and the tests that pin them are written to be run this
way. `tests/test_path.c` deliberately passes an *uninitialised* buffer on every
failure path for exactly that reason.
One test needs help from the sanitizer to test the same thing the normal build
does: `tests/test_memory.c` asks for `SIZE_MAX / 2` bytes to check that a refused
allocation reports `ENOMEM` and leaves `*dst` NULL. Plain `malloc` returns NULL;
ASan treats a request that large as a bug in the caller and aborts before `malloc`
returns at all. `CMakeLists.txt` sets `ASAN_OPTIONS=allocator_may_return_null=1`
for that one binary so the contract under test stays the same in both builds.
### 3. Code coverage
@@ -246,25 +330,42 @@ cmake -S . -B build-coverage -DAKSL_COVERAGE=ON \
-DAKSL_COVERAGE_THRESHOLD=90 -DAKSL_COVERAGE_BRANCH_THRESHOLD=40
```
**Where it stands.** `src/stdlib.c` is at **99.1% of lines (217/219)**, **45.1% of
branches (519/1151)** and **25/25 functions**, so 90/40 above is a ratchet with
headroom rather than a target. The two uncovered lines are both
`} HANDLE(e, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK) {` — in libakerror that macro begins with the
`break;` belonging to `PROCESS`'s `case 0:` arm, which is only reachable when a
callback returns a non-NULL error context whose status is *zero*. That is the
pathological case §2.2.1 of `TODO.md` exists to remove, so it is left uncovered
deliberately rather than pinned by a test.
**Where it stands.** All four sources, with the whole suite:
Branch coverage sits far below line coverage because most branches in this file
| file | lines | branches | functions |
|---|---|---|---|
| `src/collections.c` | 99.3% (601/605) | 43.5% | 100% (43/43) |
| `src/stdlib.c` | 99.3% (557/561) | 46.5% | 100% (50/50) |
| `src/stream.c` | 100% (274/274) | 43.4% | 100% (31/31) |
| `src/string.c` | 100% (211/211) | 53.8% | 100% (23/23) |
| **total** | **99.5% (1643/1651)** | **46.0%** | **100% (147/147)** |
so the 90/40 gate above is a ratchet with headroom rather than a target. Eight
lines are uncovered and each is uncovered on purpose:
- **Four `} HANDLE(e, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK) {`** lines. In libakerror that macro
begins with the `break;` belonging to `PROCESS`'s `case 0:` arm, which is only
reachable when a callback returns a non-NULL context whose status is *zero* —
the pathological case §2.2.1 exists to remove. Left uncovered rather than
pinned by a test that would have to manufacture it.
- **Two in `strbuf_reserve`**, the `size_t` overflow guard on a doubling that
would wrap. Reaching it needs a buffer within a factor of two of `SIZE_MAX`,
which is not a test, it is a hang.
- **Two in `aksl_fread`/`aksl_fwrite`**, the short transfer with *neither* `feof`
nor `ferror` set. Every way of producing a short transfer on Linux sets one or
the other; the branch is there because the standard permits neither, not
because anything reaches it. `TODO.md` §1.2 records it as still open.
Branch coverage sits far below line coverage because most branches in these files
are inside the `FAIL_*`/`ATTEMPT`/`FINISH` macro expansions — pool exhaustion,
stack-trace buffer limits, `akerr_valid_error_address` failures — and belong to
libakerror's own suite rather than to this one. The libakerror 1.0.0 bump made
that gap wider without changing a line of this library: the branch denominator
went from 661 to 1087 as those macros grew, so the same tests that scored 51.0%
(337/661) dropped to 44.3% (481/1087). The gate moved 45 → 40 to match; line and
function coverage did not move at all. Adding the `aksl_version_*` family and its
tests brought the figure back to 45.1% (519/1151), but the gate stays at 40 —
0.1 points of headroom is not a ratchet.
libakerror's own suite rather than to this one. Every `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN` in the
tree contributes several branches that this library has no way to reach. The
libakerror 1.0.0 bump made that gap wider without changing a line here: the
branch denominator per call site grew, so identical tests scored lower. Chasing
the number would mean testing libakerror's macros, which is what libakerror's
mutation suite is for — macros expand at the call site, so coverage cannot see
them properly from either side.
Two caveats. Coverage is measured at `-O0`, because the optimizer reorders lines
until per-line counts stop matching the source — so a coverage build is not the