- move macro to `curl_setup.h` (from curlx), and rename.
It's required by src, test servers, libtests. Also used by unit/tunit,
(which is fixable but this patch doesn't touch it.)
- special-case it for Windows/Cygwin/MS-DOS.
- build: drop `setmode()`/`_setmode()` detection.
This also avoids detecting the different `setmode()` on BSDs,
and a lot of complexity and overhead.
- use `CURL_O_BINARY`.
Follow-up to 250d613763#15787
Follow-up to 5e70566094#15169Closes#20539
- de-dupe lib/src strdup/memdup functions into curlx.
- introduce `CURLX_STRDUP_LOW()` for mapping `strdup()`, and to do it at
one place within the code, in `curl_setup.h`.
- tests/server: use `curlx_strdup()`. (Also to fix building without
a system `strdup()`.)
- curlx/curlx.h: shorten and tidy up.
- adjust Windows build path to not need `HAVE_STRDUP`.
- build: stop detecting `HAVE_STRDUP` on Windows.
Closes#20497
To avoid redefining the `fstat` system symbol, and to clarify
`struct_stat` is a curl symbol.
- introduce `curlx_fstat()` macro and use it.
- rename `struct_stat` to `curl_struct_stat`.
Also:
- tests: replace direct `curlx_win32_stat()` call with `curlx_stat()`.
- checksrc: disallow direct `_fstati64` and `fstat()` calls, except in
examples.
Closes#20496
And a few variables around.
There remain cases where the accepted pointer is const, yet the returned
pointer is written to.
Partly addressing (glibc 2.43):
```
* For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
a pointer to a const-qualified type.
```
Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00005.html
Reported-by: Rudi Heitbaum
Ref: #20420Closes#20421
- `stdbool.h` is also included via system headers. Disabling it from curl
does not fix it. Silencing lots of these:
```
curl/lib/curlx/warnless.h:64:1: warning: '_Bool' is a C99 extension [-Wc99-extensions]
64 | bool curlx_sztouz(ssize_t sznum, size_t *puznum);
| ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/clang/17/include/stdbool.h:24:14: note: expanded from macro 'bool'
24 | #define bool _Bool
| ^
```
- silence `-Wcomma` warnings.
in favor of the global silencing approach, since a couple of more of
these were hit (in vquic, tool1622, unit1309, unit1636), and it seems
silly to update them all.
Revert e8189c4420#20362
Also:
- cmake: include C standard in 'platform flags' log line.
- GHA/macos: switch a job to C89 to verify.
- GHA/linux: show 'C89' in job names.
Ref: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.7/variable/CMAKE_C_STANDARD.htmlCloses#20363
Before this patch curl used the C preprocessor to override standard
memory allocation symbols: malloc, calloc, strdup, realloc, free.
The goal of these is to replace them with curl's debug wrappers in
`CURLDEBUG` builds, another was to replace them with the wrappers
calling user-defined allocators in libcurl. This solution needed a bunch
of workarounds to avoid breaking external headers: it relied on include
order to do the overriding last. For "unity" builds it needed to reset
overrides before external includes. Also in test apps, which are always
built as single source files. It also needed the `(symbol)` trick
to avoid overrides in some places. This would still not fix cases where
the standard symbols were macros. It was also fragile and difficult
to figure out which was the actual function behind an alloc or free call
in a specific piece of code. This in turn caused bugs where the wrong
allocator was accidentally called.
To avoid these problems, this patch replaces this solution with
`curlx_`-prefixed allocator macros, and mapping them _once_ to either
the libcurl wrappers, the debug wrappers or the standard ones, matching
the rest of the code in libtests.
This concludes the long journey to avoid redefining standard functions
in the curl codebase.
Note: I did not update `packages/OS400/*.c` sources. They did not
`#include` `curl_setup.h`, `curl_memory.h` or `memdebug.h`, meaning
the overrides were never applied to them. This may or may not have been
correct. For now I suppressed the direct use of standard allocators
via a local `.checksrc`. Probably they (except for `curlcl.c`) should be
updated to include `curl_setup.h` and use the `curlx_` macros.
This patch changes mappings in two places:
- `lib/curl_threads.c` in libtests: Before this patch it mapped to
libcurl allocators. After, it maps to standard allocators, like
the rest of libtests code.
- `units`: before this patch it mapped to standard allocators. After, it
maps to libcurl allocators.
Also:
- drop all position-dependent `curl_memory.h` and `memdebug.h` includes,
and delete the now unnecessary headers.
- rename `Curl_tcsdup` macro to `curlx_tcsdup` and define like the other
allocators.
- map `curlx_strdup()` to `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
To fix warnings silenced via `_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE`.
- multibyte: map `curlx_convert_*()` to `_strdup()` on Windows
(was: `strdup()`).
- src: do not reuse the `strdup` name for the local replacement.
- lib509: call `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
- test1132: delete test obsoleted by this patch.
- CHECKSRC.md: update text for `SNPRINTF`.
- checksrc: ban standard allocator symbols.
Follow-up to b12da22db1#18866
Follow-up to db98daab05#18844
Follow-up to 4deea9396b#18814
Follow-up to 9678ff5b1b#18776
Follow-up to 10bac43b87#18774
Follow-up to 20142f5d06#18634
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#19626
Passing the option as-is to libcurl is fine, but checking that the file
exists allows the tool to better provide a helpful message.
This now done for the following options:
--cacert, --crlfile, --knownhosts, --netrc-file, --proxy-cacert amd
--proxy-crlfile
Bonus: bail out properly on OOM errors in the --cert parser.
Reported-by: Wesley Moore
Fixes#19583Closes#19585
- badwords.pl: add `-a` option to check all lines in source code files.
Before this patch indented lines were skipped (to avoid Markdown code
fences.)
- GHA/checksrc: use `-a` when verifying the source code.
- GHA/checksrc: disable `So` and `But` rules for source code.
- GHA/checksrc: add docs/examples to the verified sources.
- badwords.txt: delete 4 duplicates.
- badwords.txt: group and sort contractions.
- badwords.txt: allow ` url = `, `DIR`, `<file name`.
Closes#19536
Also:
- replace `manpage` with `man page`, add to `badwords.txt`.
- badwords.pl: import `-w` feature from curl-www, syncing the two
scripts fully.
- badwords.txt: import missing items from curl-www, syncing the two
files fully.
- pyspelling.words: drop `cURL` allowed word.
Closes#19468
The config file parser now has a maximum level of inclusions allowed (5)
to detect and prevent recursive inclusions of itself leading to badness.
Bonus: clean up return code handling from the config parser.
Test 774 verifies
Closes#19168
This allows users to put one of them in their .curlrc and still easily
use the other one at will in command lines.
The --no-* versions disable both of them.
Reported-by: Mitchell Blank Jr
Fixes#19029Closes#19034
Since the tool code itself adds the ids (controlled with "ids"), getting
them (also) added by the library adds nothing good. Always disable the
lib-ids even when "--trace-config all" is selected.
Also: change "== Info:" into just "* " to reduce output redundancy.
Ref: #18755
Reported-by: Alice Lee Poetics
Closes#18805
By introducing wrappers for them in the curlx namespace:
`curlx_fopen()`, `curlx_fdopen()`, `curlx_fclose()`.
The undefine/redefine/`(function)()` methods broke on systems
implementing these functions as macros. E.g. AIX 32-bit's `fopen()`.
Also:
- rename `lib/fopen.*` to `lib/curl_fopen.*` (for `Curl_fopen()`)
to make room for the newly added `curlx/fopen.h`.
- curlx: move file-related functions from `multibyte.c` to `fopen.c`.
- tests/server: stop using the curl-specific `fopen()` implementation
on Windows. Unicode isn't used by runtests, and it isn't critical to
run tests on longs path. It can be re-enabled if this becomes
necessary, or if the wrapper receives a feature that's critical for
test servers.
Reported-by: Andrew Kirillov
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/18510#issuecomment-3274393640
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#18634
It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439fc7, shipped since
8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported,
indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos.
Krb5 support was added in 54967d2a3a (July 2007), and we have
been carrying the extra license information around since then for this
code. This commit removes the last traces of that code and thus we can
remove the extra copyright notices along with it.
Reported-by: Joshua Rogers
Closes#18577
`-Weverything` is not enabled by curl, and not recommended by LLVM,
because it may enable experimental options, and will result in new
fallouts after toolchain upgrades. This patch aims to fix/silence as much
as possible as found with llvm/clang 21.1.0. It also permanently enables
warnings that were fixed in source and deemed manageable in the future.
`-Wformat` warnings are addressed separately via #18343.
Fix/silence warnings in the source:
- typecheck-gcc.h: fix `-Wreserved-identifier`.
- lib: silence `-Wcast-function-type-strict`.
For llvm 16+ or Apple clang 16+.
- asyn-ares: limit `HAPPY_EYEBALLS_DNS_TIMEOUT` to old c-ares versions.
- curl_trc: fix `-Wc++-hidden-decl`.
- doh: fix `-Wc++-keyword`.
- ftp: fix `-Wreserved-identifier`.
- ldap: fix `-Wreserved-identifier`.
- mqtt: comment unused macro to avoid warning.
- multi_ev: drop unused macros to avoid warnings.
- setopt: fix useless `break;` after `return;`.
- gtls, mbedtls, rustls: silence `-Wconditional-uninitialized`.
- socks_sspi, schannel, x509asn1: fix `-Wimplicit-int-enum-cast`.
- x509asn1: fix `-Wc++-keyword`.
- openssl: scope `OSSL_UI_METHOD_CAST` to avoid unused macro warning.
- libssh2, wolfssl: drop unused macros.
- curl_ngtcp2, curl_quiche, httpsrr, urlapi: drop/limit unused macros.
- tool_getparam: fix useless `break;` after `return;` or `break;`.
Not normally enabled because it doesn't work with unity.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/71046
- tool_operate: fix `-Wc++-keyword`.
- curlinfo: fix a `-Wunsafe-buffer-usage`.
- tests: silence `-Wformat-non-iso`.
- lib557: fix `-Wreserved-identifier`.
- lib1565: silence `-Wconditional-uninitialized`.
Enable the above clang warnings permanently in picky mode:
- `-Wc++-hidden-decl`
- `-Wc++-keyword` (except for Windows, where it collides with `wchar_t`)
- `-Wcast-function-type-strict`
- `-Wcast-function-type`
- `-Wconditional-uninitialized`
- `-Wformat-non-iso` (except for clang-cl)
- `-Wreserved-identifier`
- `-Wtentative-definition-compat`
Silence problematic `-Weverything` warnings globally (in picky mode):
- `-Wused-but-marked-unused` (88000+ hits) and
`-Wdisabled-macro-expansion` (2600+ hits).
Triggered by `typecheck-gcc.h` when building with clang 14+.
Maybe there exists a way to fix within that header?
Ref: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/removing-wused-but-marked-unused/55310
- `-Wunsafe-buffer-usage`. clang 16+. 7000+ hits.
May be useful in theory, but such high volume of hits makes it
impractical to review and possibly address. Meant for C++.
Ref: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SafeBuffers.html
Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77017567/how-to-fix-code-to-avoid-warning-wunsafe-buffer-usage
Ref: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-c-buffer-hardening/65734
Ref: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/111624
- `-Wimplicit-void-ptr-cast`. clang 21+. 1700+ hits.
C++ warning, deemed pure noise.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/18470#issuecomment-3253506266
- `-Wswitch-default` (180+ hits), `-Wswitch-enum` (190+ hits),
`-Wcovered-switch-default` (20+ hits).
Next to impossible to fix cleanly, esp. when the covered `case`
branches depend on compile-time options.
- `-Wdocumentation-unknown-command` (8+ hits).
Triggered in a few sources. Seems arbitrary and bogus.
- `-Wpadded` (550+ hits).
- `-Wc++-keyword` on Windows, where it collides with `wchar_t`.
(100+ hits)
Ref: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/155988
- `-Wreserved-macro-identifier`. clang 13+. 5+ hits.
Sometimes it's necessary to set external macros that use
the reserved namespace. E.g. `_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE`,
`__ENVIRONMENT_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED__`, `__NO_NET_API`,
possibly `_REENTRANT`, and more.
It's not worth trying to silence them individually.
- `-Wnonportable-system-include-path` with `clang-cl`.
It'd be broken by doing what the warning suggests.
- `-Wformat-non-iso` for clang-cl.
CMake `PICKY_COMPILER=ON` (the default) or `./configure`
`--enable-warnings` (not the default) is required to enable these
silencing rules.
Also:
- autotools, cmake: fix Apple clang and mainline llvm version translations.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Toolchain_versions
- autotools, cmake: enable `-Warray-compare` for clang 20+.
Follow-up to 4b7accda5a#17196
- cmake: fix to enable `-Wmissing-variable-declarations` at an earlier
clang version.
- cmake: update internal logic to handle warning options with `+` in
them.
- cmake: fix internal logic to match the whole option when looking
into `CMAKE_C_FLAGS` for custom-disabled warnings.
Follow-up to b85cb8cb4e#18485Closes#18477
If a string argument is expected and the first two bytes are 0xe2 ex80
and the third has the 7th bit set, that's enough for curl to warn.
Previously we tried to detect and warn only for the unicode double
quote, but users might use single quotes, other quotes or even lead the
argument with one of the "zero widths" characters. This is an attempt to
detect many of those. Without triggering for "normal" IDN hostnames.
Closes#18459
If --trace-config is used to set a level before -v is used, don't reset
the state on first -v (to "-all") as it otherwise does. This way,
--trace-config can be used to set specific trace items before -v on the
command line and it still works.
Previously, the first -v use would otherwise reset and undo the earlier
--trace-config items.
Fixes#18346Closes#18361
The GlobalConfig only exists in a single instance and it has worked like
this since the dawn of time. It is about time we stop passing around
pointers to what was already essentially a global object and instead
just use a... global.
It simplifies things.
Closes#18213
Makes curl follow redirects an act on the response code and change a
custom method accordingly, contrary to --location.
Potential future command line to send QUERY and following a redirect
according to the status code:
curl -d "request-body" -X QUERY --follow https://example.com
add test 794,796,797
Assisted-by: Daniel Böhmer <post@daniel-boehmer.de>
Closes#16543
Add a new commandline option --out-null that discards all
response bytes into the void. Replaces non-portable use of
'-o /dev/null' with more efficiency.
Feature added in 8.16.0
Closes#17800
If the long option name ends with an equals sign (`=`), the argument is
the text following on its right side.
This makes the command line parser accept this common style in addition
to the existing way to accept option arguments more similar to how other
command line tools do.
Example: `curl --user-agent=curl-2000 https://example.com/`
Change a few existing tests to use this syntax: 206, 1333, 1335, 1442
Closes#17789
This still allows users to explictily ask for 1.0 or 1.1 as the minimum
version. If the TLS library allows it.
Starting with this change, the CURL_SSLVERSION_DEFAULT value is no
longer used as minimum version when the TLS backend are called.
This also makes curl set the minimum version to 1.2 independently of
libcurl for the rare case where a newer curl tool would use an older
libcurl.
URL: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2025-07/0007.html
Assisted-by: Stefan Eissing
Closes#17894
Use 'config' for pointing to a OperationConfig
Use 'global' for pointing to GlobalConfig
Bonus: add config_alloc(), an easier way to allocate + init a new
OperationConfig struct.
Closes#17888
