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Summary:ASTERISK-29306: strings: Incorrect use of __attribute__((pure)) in ast_str_to_lower definition
Reporter:Vitezslav Novy (vnovy)Labels:
Date Opened:2021-02-20 07:40:12.000-0600Date Closed:2021-03-10 04:18:23.000-0600
Priority:MinorRegression?
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/General
Versions:16.16.1 18.2.0 Frequency of
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Constant
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Description:I am analysing  problem with case-insensivity of application names in cel.conf declared here
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/blob/18/main/cel.c#L75

In our configuration application CEL events are recorded only when applications are listed in cel.conf with uppercase first letter.

Looking to code in cel.c application  names read from configuration shoud be converted to lowercase in function apps_handler and in function   cel_track_app app name is also converted to lowercase before it is searched in app list

But it does not happen. Using few extra  logging lines I can see app name before and after calling ast_str_to_lower has first letter uppercase and ast_str_to_lower just does not work.
Looking to dissasembled binary I can see the function was completely optimized out. I believe it is because of it is declared with attrribute_pure
which declares no side effects. But it is not true for the function ast_str_to_lower, there are side effects.
In combination with fact that function always returns value its parameter
compiler is right if skips it completely and only uses the parameter of the function as its result.
Comments:By: Asterisk Team (asteriskteam) 2021-02-20 07:40:13.205-0600

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By: Sean Bright (seanbright) 2021-03-08 14:06:52.686-0600

Yup. Good catch.

By: Friendly Automation (friendly-automation) 2021-03-10 04:18:26.723-0600

Change 15594 merged by Joshua Colp:
strings.h: ast_str_to_upper() and _to_lower() are not pure.

[https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15594|https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15594]

By: Friendly Automation (friendly-automation) 2021-03-10 04:18:42.283-0600

Change 15577 merged by Joshua Colp:
strings.h: ast_str_to_upper() and _to_lower() are not pure.

[https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15577|https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15577]

By: Friendly Automation (friendly-automation) 2021-03-10 04:18:53.665-0600

Change 15578 merged by Joshua Colp:
strings.h: ast_str_to_upper() and _to_lower() are not pure.

[https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15578|https://gerrit.asterisk.org/c/asterisk/+/15578]