Re: [edk2-discuss] State of the `edk2-libc` project

Re: [edk2-discuss] State of the `edk2-libc` project

[Rebecca Cran]

By the lack of replies, I suspect we should bring it up as a topic of 
discussion in the Community Meeting next week.


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Rebecca Cran


On 7/14/21 1:43 PM, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> I submitted a patch to fix it several weeks ago, but it never got committed.
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> Rebecca Cran
>> On Jul 14, 2021, at 11:36 AM, Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> What is the state of the `edk2-libc` project?
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>> The last commit is dated Apr 29, 2019. I've tried to compile
>> `edk2-libc` with the master `edk2` and have come to some build issues.
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>> For example this edk2 commit (13 Oct 2020 "MdePkg: Remove code wrapped
>> by DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES"
>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/9c1f455f5f0ee63ce080940bf974aac4fefe526b)
>> have dropped support for several functions, but these functions are
>> still used in `edk2-libs`:
>> - `StrCpy` and `StrCpy` functions are used in
>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-libc/blob/master/StdLib/LibC/Wchar/Copying.c
>> - `AsciiStrCat` and `AsciiStrnCat` functions are used in
>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-libc/blob/master/StdLib/LibC/String/Concatenation.c
>> In the modern `edk2` all these old functions are replaced with their
>> safe versions (StrCpyS, StrCpyS, AsciiStrCatS, AsciiStrnCatS).
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>> My question is should these unsafe string functions be deprecated in
>> the `edk2-libc` as well? And more importantly does the tianocore
>> community have any plans for support of `edk2-libc` project or can it
>> be counted as obsolete?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Konstantin Aladyshev
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