assembleFNT() can no longer fail

programs/util.c

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ FileNamesTable*
 UTIL_assembleFileNamesTable(const char** filenames, size_t tableSize, char* buf)
 {
     FileNamesTable* const table = (FileNamesTable*) malloc(sizeof(*table));
-    if(!table) return NULL;
+    CONTROL(table != NULL);
     table->fileNames = filenames;
     table->buf = buf;
     table->tableSize = tableSize;
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static int UTIL_prepareFileList(const char *dirName,
     }
 
     if (errno != 0) {
-        UTIL_DISPLAYLEVEL(1, "readdir(%s) error: %s\n", dirName, strerror(errno));
+        UTIL_DISPLAYLEVEL(1, "readdir(%s) error: %s \n", dirName, strerror(errno));
         free(*bufStart);
         *bufStart = NULL;
     }
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static int UTIL_prepareFileList(const char *dirName,
                                 char** bufEnd, int followLinks)
 {
     (void)bufStart; (void)bufEnd; (void)pos; (void)followLinks;
-    UTIL_DISPLAYLEVEL(1, "Directory %s ignored (compiled without _WIN32 or _POSIX_C_SOURCE)\n", dirName);
+    UTIL_DISPLAYLEVEL(1, "Directory %s ignored (compiled without _WIN32 or _POSIX_C_SOURCE) \n", dirName);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -665,7 +665,8 @@ UTIL_createExpandedFNT(const char** inputNames, size_t nbIfns, int followLinks)
             pos += strlen(fileNamesTable[ifnNb]) + 1;
         }
         {   FileNamesTable* const fnt = UTIL_assembleFileNamesTable(fileNamesTable, nbFiles, buf);
-#ifdef __clang_analyzer__
+#if 0 && defined(__clang_analyzer__)
+            /* note : this trick might not be necessary anymore */
             /* scan-build does not understand ownership transfer.
              * In _some_ versions, it believes that there is a leak of @buf and @fileNamesTable
              * on leaving the function, which is not the case,
@@ -761,8 +762,7 @@ int UTIL_countPhysicalCores(void)
                 }
             } else {
                 done = TRUE;
-            }
+        }   }
-        }
 
         ptr = buffer;
 
@@ -874,8 +874,7 @@ int UTIL_countPhysicalCores(void)
             } else if (ferror(cpuinfo)) {
                 /* fall back on the sysconf value */
                 goto failed;
-            }
+        }   }
-        }
         if (siblings && cpu_cores) {
             ratio = siblings / cpu_cores;
         }

programs/util.h

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <sys/stat.h>     /* stat, chmod */
 #include "mem.h"          /* U64 */
 
+
 /*-************************************************************
 * Avoid fseek()'s 2GiB barrier with MSVC, macOS, *BSD, MinGW
 ***************************************************************/
@@ -126,17 +127,8 @@ const char* UTIL_getFileExtension(const char* infilename);
  *  Lists of Filenames
  ******************************************/
 
-#ifdef _WIN32
-#  define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST
-#elif defined(__linux__) || (PLATFORM_POSIX_VERSION >= 200112L)  /* opendir, readdir require POSIX.1-2001 */
-#  define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST
-#else
-   /* do not define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST */
-#endif /* #ifdef _WIN32 */
-
 typedef struct
-{
+{   const char** fileNames;
-    const char** fileNames;
     char* buf;            /* fileNames are stored in this buffer (or are read-only) */
     size_t tableSize;     /* nb of fileNames */
     size_t tableCapacity;
@@ -153,7 +145,9 @@ UTIL_createFileNamesTable_fromFileName(const char* inputFileName);
 /*! UTIL_assembleFileNamesTable() :
  *  This function takes ownership of its arguments, @filenames and @buf,
  *  and store them inside the created object.
- * @return : FileNamesTable*, or NULL, if allocation fails.
+ *  note : this function never fails,
+ *         it will rather exit() the program if internal allocation fails.
+ * @return : resulting FileNamesTable* object.
  */
 FileNamesTable*
 UTIL_assembleFileNamesTable(const char** filenames, size_t tableSize, char* buf);
@@ -185,15 +179,8 @@ void UTIL_expandFNT(FileNamesTable** fnt, int followLinks);
  * @return : a FileNamesTable* object,
  *        or NULL in case of error
  */
-FileNamesTable* UTIL_createFNT_fromROTable(const char** filenames, size_t nbFilenames);
+FileNamesTable*
-
+UTIL_createFNT_fromROTable(const char** filenames, size_t nbFilenames);
-/*! UTIL_createExpandedFNT() :
- *  read names from @filenames, and expand those corresponding to directories
- * @return : an expanded FileNamesTable*, where each name is a file
- *        or NULL in case of error
- */
-FileNamesTable* UTIL_createExpandedFNT(const char** filenames, size_t nbFilenames, int followLinks);
-
 
 /*! UTIL_allocateFileNamesTable() :
  *  Allocates a table of const char*, to insert read-only names later on.
@@ -212,6 +199,28 @@ FileNamesTable* UTIL_allocateFileNamesTable(size_t tableSize);
 void UTIL_refFilename(FileNamesTable* fnt, const char* filename);
 
 
+/* UTIL_createExpandedFNT() is only active if UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST is defined.
+ * Otherwise, UTIL_createExpandedFNT() is a shell function which does nothing
+ * apart from displaying a warning message.
+ */
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#  define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST
+#elif defined(__linux__) || (PLATFORM_POSIX_VERSION >= 200112L)  /* opendir, readdir require POSIX.1-2001 */
+#  define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST
+#else
+   /* do not define UTIL_HAS_CREATEFILELIST */
+#endif
+
+/*! UTIL_createExpandedFNT() :
+ *  read names from @filenames, and expand those corresponding to directories.
+ *  links are followed or not depending on @followLinks directive.
+ * @return : an expanded FileNamesTable*, where each name is a file
+ *        or NULL in case of error
+ */
+FileNamesTable*
+UTIL_createExpandedFNT(const char** filenames, size_t nbFilenames, int followLinks);
+
+
 /*-****************************************
  *  System
  ******************************************/