They are not needed, because anything that is non-zero is converted
to true.
C11:
> 6.3.1.2: When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the
> value compares equal to 0; otherwise, the result is 1.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31551888/casting-int-to-bool-in-c-c
oss-fuzz flags this as:
==1==WARNING: MemorySanitizer: use-of-uninitialized-value
0. 0x7fce77519ca5 in ascii_is_valid systemd/src/basic/utf8.c:252:9
1. 0x7fce774d203c in ellipsize_mem systemd/src/basic/string-util.c:544:13
2. 0x7fce7730a299 in print_multiline systemd/src/shared/logs-show.c:244:37
3. 0x7fce772ffdf3 in output_short systemd/src/shared/logs-show.c:495:25
4. 0x7fce772f5a27 in show_journal_entry systemd/src/shared/logs-show.c:1077:15
5. 0x7fce772f66ad in show_journal systemd/src/shared/logs-show.c:1164:29
6. 0x4a2fa0 in LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput systemd/src/fuzz/fuzz-journal-remote.c:64:21
...
I didn't reproduce the issue, but this looks like an obvious error: the length
is specified, so we shouldn't use the string with any functions for normal
C-strings.
Double newlines (i.e. one empty lines) are great to structure code. But
let's avoid triple newlines (i.e. two empty lines), quadruple newlines,
quintuple newlines, …, that's just spurious whitespace.
It's an easy way to drop 121 lines of code, and keeps the coding style
of our sources a bit tigther.
We have plenty of code in our codebase that outputs tables to the
console, and all is homegrown and awful. Let's replace it with a generic
implementation that can do automatically what the old implementations
did manually.
Features:
1. Ellipsation (for fields overly long) and alignment (for
fields overly short)
2. Sorting of rows
3. automatically copies formatting from the same cell in the row above
4. Heavy use of varargs to make putting together tables easy
5. can expand and compress tables, with weights
6. Has a minimal understanding of unicode wide characters in order to
match unicode strings to character cell terminals.
7. Columns can be reordered and individually turned off.
8. pretty printing for various data types
And more.
Lennart Poettering