and slightly refactored affected function.
Honestly, the formula calculating variance should get a second reviewing round,
it's not clear if it's correct.
some non-trivial changes to platform.h and util.h,
initially related to compilation for Haiku,
but I used this opportunity to make them cleaner
and add some documentation.
Noticed several tests that could be improved
(too harsh conditions, useless exception, etc.)
but I did not dare modifying too many tests just before release.
note : for some reason,
scan-build version on my laptop found problems within fastcover.c
that scan-build on travisCI does not flag.
They are, as usual, false positive :
the analyzer does not understand that a table (`offset`) is correctly filled before usage.
for Linux and Mac OS-X.
Note : the backtraces fires up through a trap
before the sanitizer get a chance to report.
There are situations where the sanitizer report is actually preferable.
It might be good to consider a kind of build macro
which can disable backtrace
when sanitizer is enabled.
from EXIT_IF() to RETURN_IF()
EXIT could be misunderstood as exit(), which terminates program execution.
But the macro only leaves the function, not the program.
- Print signal name to term
- Add -rdynamic option to generate Linux symbol names in backtrace
- Raise default signal after handler to ensure program termination
For OSX and Linux, add a signal handler to SIGABRT, SGIFPE, SIGILL,
SIGSEGV, and SIGBUS. When the program terminates unexpectedly the
handler will print the current stack to the terminal to help determine
the location of the failure.
On OSX the output will look like:
```
Stack trace:
4 zstd 0x000000010927ed96 main + 16886
5 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff767d1015 start + 1
6 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
```
On Linux the output will look like:
```
Stack trace:
./zstd() [0x4b8e1b]
./zstd() [0x4b928a]
./zstd() [0x403dc2]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f5e0fbb0445]
./zstd() [0x405754]
```
As is, the code does not function on WIN32.
See also: https://oroboro.com/stack-trace-on-crash/
