<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a prototype of the patch, but there currently is an issue with the current EDK II build system.</div><div class="">I attached the patch to this e-mail, however, it will not compile for reasonably obscure causes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From what I understand:</div><div class="">- DebugLib header now <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">directly </span>uses PCDs from DebugLib, like PcdDebugPropertyMask.</div><div class="">- Any library implementing DebugLib should now depend on these PCDs, which seems fairly natural (and I fixed that in BaseDebugLibNull).</div><div class="">- Any library using DebugLib header should depend on DebugLib, which also depend on DebugLib to get its PCDs (that already looks fine).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, for some reason DebugLib PCDs are not included in Autogen.h header for other libraries some reason, and we get errors like:</div><div class="">MdePkg/Library/BaseOrderedCollectionRedBlackTreeLib/BaseOrderedCollectionRedBlackTreeLib.c:1151:9: error: use of undeclared identifier '_PCD_GET_MODE_8_PcdDebugPropertyMask'</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not familiar with the build system well enough to resolve this, so I either need guidance on where to look first or it will be great if somebody else handles that.</div><div class="">I do not believe it is a great idea to abandon the idea of dropping DebugAssertEnabled-like functions, so I suggest us to focus on resolving the build system limitation rather than trying a new approach.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Vitaly</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">11 марта 2020 г., в 16:14, Laszlo Ersek <<a href="mailto:lersek@redhat.com" class="">lersek@redhat.com</a>> напи�?ал(а):</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 03/11/20 14:09, Vitaly Cheptsov wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">So, I believe that by now we mostly agreed to let the original<br class="">proposition land as a short-term solution. We end up with:<br class=""><br class="">1. A PCD condition within SAFE_STRING_COSTRAINT_CHECK macro.<br class="">2. Make this condition evaluate to TRUE by default (i.e. ASSERT).<br class="">3. Update documentation for BaseLib functions to include the information<br class="">about this behaviour.<br class=""><br class="">The only thing in question is whether this should be a separate PCD or<br class="">an extra bit in PcdDebugPropertyMask. I believe that we almost agreed on<br class="">two things:<br class=""><br class="">1. Adding an extra bit to PcdDebugPropertyMask is cleaner.<br class="">2. Extending DebugLib interface with a new function is not a good idea.<br class=""><br class="">Therefore I suggest:<br class=""><br class="">1.Add #define DEBUG_PROPERTY_ASSERT_CONSTRAINT_ENABLED 0x40.<br class="">2. Create header-only macros to replace functions like<br class="">DebugAssertEnabled. We can then use these macros in new code and<br class="">deprecate the original functions.<br class="">3. Enable DEBUG_PROPERTY_ASSERT_CONSTRAINT_ENABLED bit in MdePkg by default.<br class=""><br class="">I will submit the new version of the patch soon unless there is an<br class="">immediate opposing opinion.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Not sure about any particular deprecation timeline, but to me the above</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">certainly sounds worth submitting for review.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">(NB I don't plan to review in detail -- I just meant to comment on the</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">design, since I was asked to.)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thanks!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Laszlo</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html> <div width="1" style="color:white;clear:both">_._,_._,_</div> <hr> Groups.io Links:<p> You receive all messages sent to this group. <p> <a target="_blank" href="https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55961">View/Reply Online (#55961)</a> | | <a target="_blank" href="https://groups.io/mt/71711587/1813853">Mute This Topic</a> | <a href="https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/post">New Topic</a><br> <br> <a href="https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/editsub/1813853">Your Subscription</a> | <a href="mailto:devel+owner@edk2.groups.io">Contact Group Owner</a> | <a href="https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub">Unsubscribe</a> [edk2-devel-archive@redhat.com]<br> <div width="1" style="color:white;clear:both">_._,_._,_</div>