Poisoning in HotSpot

[Kim Barrett]

On 12/1/24 7:09 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 2/12/2024 2:13 am, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> Unfortunately, there's a potentially fatal problem with this whole 
>> approach.
>> We don't have a mechanism for turning it off over some context. We 
>> need this
>> because there are files that ere not ours that are subject to our 
>> headers.
>> Consider gtest, for example. Apparently there are *lots* of calls to 
>> sprintf,
>> for example.
>>
>> I've not yet come up with a way for this new mechanism to deal with 
>> that.
>
> Somewhat crude but couldn't gtests #define USING_GTEST before 
> including our headers and then we could make the forbidden stuff 
> conditional on ifndef USING_GTEST. ?? 

Things are more complicated than that, unfortunately.

I think I might have a way forward, in part using that kind of thing.  
But it might interfere with other future work.