rpcgen bug or user error? (PR libc/1191)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>]

Hi all,

David send the appended bug report where he reports an error in
rpcgen.  I run the code through rpcgen on Solaris 7 and can confirm
that the code is broken.

Any ideas what's wrong here?

Andreas


P.S. David, please always use the glibcbug script to report errors.

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From: dh@erewhon.ak.planet.co.nz (David Hodges)
Subject: bug in rpcgen (glibc 2)
To: bugs@gnu.org

I am using glibc 2.?.? (not sure exactly which version but I suspect that
this bug is in all of them) and I have discovered that rpcgen sometimes
generates invalid C code. This bug also occurs in Linux libc 5 and on
QNX so it is presumably inherited from the original Sun source.
If I run rpcgen on the following code:

typedef string employeeid<8>;
typedef string encryptedpassword<16>;

struct npw {
   employeeid user;
   encryptedpassword password;
};
typedef struct npw employeeIDandPassword;

program LoginServer {
   version VER {
      bool_t isValidPassword( employeeIDandPassword ) = 1;
      long employeeIdToCDPDAddress( employeeid ) = 2;
   } = 1;
} = 0x20123456;

it generates references to xdr_bool_t which I must change to xdr_bool in
order to get the C code to compile.


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