- apply more clang-format.
- lib/version: use `CURL_ARRAYSIZE()`.
- INSTALL-CMAKE.md: sync-up an option description with others.
- examples: delete unused main args.
- examples/ftpgetinfo: document `_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS` symbol.
- delete remaining stray duplicate lines.
- acinclude.m4: drop an unnecessary x-hack.
- vtls/mbedtls: join a URL split into two lines.
- src/tool_cb_see: add parentheses around macro expressions.
- src/tool_operate: move literals to the right side of comparisons.
- libtests: sync up fopen/fstat error messages between tests.
- curl_setup.h: replace `if ! defined __LP64` with `ifndef __LP64`.
I assume it makes no difference on Tandem systems, as the latter form
is already used in `include/curl/system.h`.
Closes#20018
Before this patch curl used the C preprocessor to override standard
memory allocation symbols: malloc, calloc, strdup, realloc, free.
The goal of these is to replace them with curl's debug wrappers in
`CURLDEBUG` builds, another was to replace them with the wrappers
calling user-defined allocators in libcurl. This solution needed a bunch
of workarounds to avoid breaking external headers: it relied on include
order to do the overriding last. For "unity" builds it needed to reset
overrides before external includes. Also in test apps, which are always
built as single source files. It also needed the `(symbol)` trick
to avoid overrides in some places. This would still not fix cases where
the standard symbols were macros. It was also fragile and difficult
to figure out which was the actual function behind an alloc or free call
in a specific piece of code. This in turn caused bugs where the wrong
allocator was accidentally called.
To avoid these problems, this patch replaces this solution with
`curlx_`-prefixed allocator macros, and mapping them _once_ to either
the libcurl wrappers, the debug wrappers or the standard ones, matching
the rest of the code in libtests.
This concludes the long journey to avoid redefining standard functions
in the curl codebase.
Note: I did not update `packages/OS400/*.c` sources. They did not
`#include` `curl_setup.h`, `curl_memory.h` or `memdebug.h`, meaning
the overrides were never applied to them. This may or may not have been
correct. For now I suppressed the direct use of standard allocators
via a local `.checksrc`. Probably they (except for `curlcl.c`) should be
updated to include `curl_setup.h` and use the `curlx_` macros.
This patch changes mappings in two places:
- `lib/curl_threads.c` in libtests: Before this patch it mapped to
libcurl allocators. After, it maps to standard allocators, like
the rest of libtests code.
- `units`: before this patch it mapped to standard allocators. After, it
maps to libcurl allocators.
Also:
- drop all position-dependent `curl_memory.h` and `memdebug.h` includes,
and delete the now unnecessary headers.
- rename `Curl_tcsdup` macro to `curlx_tcsdup` and define like the other
allocators.
- map `curlx_strdup()` to `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
To fix warnings silenced via `_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE`.
- multibyte: map `curlx_convert_*()` to `_strdup()` on Windows
(was: `strdup()`).
- src: do not reuse the `strdup` name for the local replacement.
- lib509: call `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
- test1132: delete test obsoleted by this patch.
- CHECKSRC.md: update text for `SNPRINTF`.
- checksrc: ban standard allocator symbols.
Follow-up to b12da22db1#18866
Follow-up to db98daab05#18844
Follow-up to 4deea9396b#18814
Follow-up to 9678ff5b1b#18776
Follow-up to 10bac43b87#18774
Follow-up to 20142f5d06#18634
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#19626
Windows CE support was limited to successful builds with ming32ce
(a toolchain that hasn't seen an update since 2009, using an ancient gcc
version and "old mingw"-style SDK headers, that curl deprecated earlier).
Builds with MSVC were broken for a long time. mingw32ce builds were never
actually tested and runtime and unlikely to work due to missing stubs.
Windows CE toolchains also miss to comply with C89. Paired with lack of
demand and support for the platform, curl deprecated it earlier.
This patch removes support from the codebase to ease maintaining Windows
codepaths.
Follow-up to f98c0ba834#17924
Follow-up to 8491e6574c#17379
Follow-up to 2a292c3984#15975Closes#17927
The -F option allows users to provide a file with a set of headers for a
specific formpost section. This code used old handcrafted parsing logic
that potentially could do wrong.
Rewrite to use my_get_line() and dynbuf. Supports longer lines and
should be more solid parsing code.
Gets somewhat complicated by the (unwise) feature that allows "folding"
of header lines in the file: if a line starts with a space it should be
appended to the previous.
The previous code trimmed spurious CR characters wherever they would
occur in a line but this version does not. It does not seem like
something we want or that users would expect.
Test 646 uses this feature.
Closes#19113
- tool_formparse: replace truncated `fseek` with `curlx_fseek`.
- tool_operate: replace truncated `fseek` with `curlx_fseek`.
- tool_paramhlp: replace local duplicate `myfseek`, with `curlx_fseek`.
Follow-up to 4fb12f2891#19100Closes#19107
Also:
- tests/server: replace local `sstrerror()` with `curlx_strerror()`.
- tests/server: show the error code next to the string, where missing.
- curlx: use `curl_msnprintf()` when building for src and tests.
(units was already using it.)
- lib: drop unused includes found along the way.
- curlx_strerror(): avoid compiler warning (and another similar one):
```
In file included from servers.c:14:
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c: In function ‘curlx_strerror’:
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:328:32: error: ‘snprintf’ output may be truncated before the last format character [-Werror=format-truncation=]
328 | SNPRINTF(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
| ^
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:47:18: note: ‘snprintf’ output 1 or more bytes (assuming 2) into a destination of size 1
47 | #define SNPRINTF snprintf
| ^
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:328:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘SNPRINTF’
328 | SNPRINTF(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
| ^~~~~~~~
```
Follow-up to 45438c8d6f#18823Closes#18840
By introducing wrappers for them in the curlx namespace:
`curlx_fopen()`, `curlx_fdopen()`, `curlx_fclose()`.
The undefine/redefine/`(function)()` methods broke on systems
implementing these functions as macros. E.g. AIX 32-bit's `fopen()`.
Also:
- rename `lib/fopen.*` to `lib/curl_fopen.*` (for `Curl_fopen()`)
to make room for the newly added `curlx/fopen.h`.
- curlx: move file-related functions from `multibyte.c` to `fopen.c`.
- tests/server: stop using the curl-specific `fopen()` implementation
on Windows. Unicode isn't used by runtests, and it isn't critical to
run tests on longs path. It can be re-enabled if this becomes
necessary, or if the wrapper receives a feature that's critical for
test servers.
Reported-by: Andrew Kirillov
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/18510#issuecomment-3274393640
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#18634
The GlobalConfig only exists in a single instance and it has worked like
this since the dawn of time. It is about time we stop passing around
pointers to what was already essentially a global object and instead
just use a... global.
It simplifies things.
Closes#18213
- codespell: break logic out into its own runnable script. Allowing
to run it on local machines.
- codespell: install via `pip`, bump to latest version.
- codespell: show version number in CI log.
- codespell: drop no longer needed word exception: `msdos`.
- codespell: include all curl source tree, except `packages` and
`winbuild`. Drop an obsolete file exclusion.
- add new spellchecker job using the `typos` tool. It includes
the codespell dictionary and a couple more. Use linuxbrew to install
it. This takes 10 seconds, while installing via `cargo` from source
would take over a minute.
- codespell: introduce an inline ignore filter compatible with `cspell`
Make `typos` recognize it, too. Move single exceptions inline.
Fix new typos found. Also rename variables and words to keep
spellchecking exceptions at minumum. This involves touching some tests.
Also switch base64 strings to `%b64[]` to avoid false positives.
Ref: https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/reference.md
Ref: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell?tab=readme-ov-file#inline-ignore
Ref: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/issues/1212#issuecomment-1721152455
Ref: https://cspell.org/docs/Configuration/document-settingsCloses#17905
Use 'config' for pointing to a OperationConfig
Use 'global' for pointing to GlobalConfig
Bonus: add config_alloc(), an easier way to allocate + init a new
OperationConfig struct.
Closes#17888
To make all src and test code refer to curlx headers the same way.
Also:
- src: move `curlx.h` include to `tool_setup.h`.
- src/tool_setup.h: drop stray `curlx/timeval.h`.
- servers: de-duplicate `curlx.h` and `curl_setup.h` includes.
- libtests, units: drop stray curlx sub-headers in favor of
`<curlx/curlx.h>`.
- tests: include `curlx.h` with `<>` instead of `""`. To match
other parts of the codebase.
Closes#17680
Use it from libtests' `first.c` and thus also from units, and tunits.
Also:
- cmake: drop stray `curltool` lib dependency for units.
- units: stop depending on `src` headers.
- tests/server: drop depending on `src` headers.
(the remaining one listed in the comments, `tool_xattr.h`, was not
actually used from servers.)
- tests/server: drop duplicate curlx headers.
(Except `warnless.h`, which is tricky on Windows.)
Closes#17672
Move curlx_ functions into its own subdir.
The idea is to use the curlx_ prefix proper on these functions, and use
these same function names both in tool, lib and test suite source code.
Stop the previous special #define setup for curlx_ names.
The printf defines are now done for the library alone. Tests no longer
use the printf defines. The tool code sets its own defines. The printf
functions are not curlx, they are publicly available.
The strcase defines are not curlx_ functions and should not be used by
tool or server code.
dynbuf, warnless, base64, strparse, timeval, timediff are now proper
curlx functions.
When libcurl is built statically, the functions from the library can be
used as-is. The key is then that the functions must work as-is, without
having to be recompiled for use in tool/tests. This avoids symbol
collisions - when libcurl is built statically, we use those functions
directly when building the tool/tests. When libcurl is shared, we
build/link them separately for the tool/tests.
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Closes#17253
Make it possible to build curl for Windows CE using the CeGCC toolchain.
With both CMake and autotools, including tests and examples, also in CI.
The build configuration is the default one with Schannel enabled. No
3rd-party dependencies have been tested.
Also revive old code to make Schannel build with Windows CE, including
certificate verification.
Builds have been throughougly tested. But, I've made no functional tests
for this PR. Some parts (esp. file operations, like truncate and seek)
are stubbed out and likely broken as a result. Test servers build, but
they do not work on Windows CE. This patch substitutes `fstat()` calls
with `stat()`, which operate on filenames, not file handles. This may or
may not work and/or may not be secure.
About CeGCC: I used the latest available macOS binary build v0.59.1
r1397 from 2009, in native `mingw32ce` build mode. CeGCC is in effect
MinGW + GCC 4.4.0 + old/classic-mingw Windows headers. It targets
Windows CE v3.0 according to its `_WIN32_WCE` value. It means this PR
restores portions of old/classic-mingw support. It makes the Windows CE
codepath compatible with GCC 4.4.0. It also adds workaround for CMake,
which cannot identify and configure this toolchain out of the box.
Notes:
- CMake doesn't recognize CeGCC/mingw32ce, necessitating tricks as seen
with Amiga and MS-DOS.
- CMake doesn't set `MINGW` for mingw32ce. Set it and `MINGW32CE`
manually as a helper variable, in addition to `WINCE` which CMake sets
based on `CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME`.
- CMake fails to create an implib for `libcurl.dll`, due to not
recognizing the platform as a Windowsy one. This patch adds the
necessary workaround to make it work.
- headers shipping with CeGCC miss some things curl needs for Schannel
support. Fixed by restoring and renovating code previously deleted
old-mingw code.
- it's sometime non-trivial to figure out if a fallout is WinCE,
mingw32ce, old-mingw, or GCC version-specific.
- WinCE is always Unicode. With exceptions: no `wmain`,
`GetProcAddress()`.
- `_fileno()` is said to convert from `FILE *` to `void *` which is
a Win32 file `HANDLE`. (This patch doesn't use this, but with further
effort it probably could be.)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3989545/how-do-i-get-the-file-handle-from-the-fopen-file-structure
- WinCE has no signals, current directory, stdio/CRT file handles, no
`_get_osfhandle()`, no `errno`, no `errno.h`. Some of this stuff is
standard C89, yet missing from this platform. Microsoft expects
Windows CE apps to use Win32 file API and `FILE *` exclusively.
- revived CeGCC here (not tested for this PR):
https://building.enlyze.com/posts/a-new-windows-ce-x86-compiler-in-2024/
On `UNDER_CE` vs. `_WIN32_WCE`: (This patch settled on `UNDER_CE`)
- A custom VS2008 WinCE toolchain does not set any of these.
The compiler binaries don't contain these strings, and has no compiler
option for targeting WinCE, hinting that a vanilla toolchain isn't
setting any of them either.
- `UNDER_CE` is automatically defined by the CeGCC compiler.
https://cegcc.sourceforge.net/docs/details.html
- `UNDER_CE` is similar to `_WIN32`, except it's not set automatically
by all compilers. It's not supposed to have any value, like a version.
(Though e.g. OpenSSL sets it to a version)
- `_WIN32_WCE` is the CE counterpart of the non-CE `_WIN32_WINNT` macro.
That does return the targeted Windows CE version.
- `_WIN32_WCE` is not defined by compilers, and relies on a header
setting it to a default, or the build to set it to the desired target
version. This is also how `_WIN32_WINNT` works.
- `_WIN32_WCE` default is set by `windef.h` in CeGCC.
- `_WIN32_WCE` isn't set to a default by MSVC Windows CE headers (the
ones I checked at least).
- CMake sets `_WIN32_WCE=<ver>`, `UNDER_CE`, `WINCE` for MSVC WinCE.
- `_WIN32_WCE` seems more popular in other projects, including CeGCC
itself. `zlib` is a notable exception amongst curl dependencies,
which uses `UNDER_CE`.
- Since `_WIN32_WCE` needs "certain" headers to have it defined, it's
undefined depending on headers included beforehand.
- `curl/curl.h` re-uses `_WIN32_WCE`'s as a self-guard, relying on
its not-(necessarily)-defined-by-default property:
25b445e479/include/curl/curl.h (L77)
Toolchain downloads:
- Windows:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/cegcc/cegcc/0.59.1/cegcc_mingw32ce_cygwin1.7_r1399.tar.bz2
- macOS Intel:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/cegcc/cegcc/0.59.1/cegcc_mingw32ce_snowleopard_r1397.tar.bz2Closes#15975
And drop the prefix. This function was not use elsewhere and it should
certainly not be present in libcurl code when not used in the library.
Closes#15796
And use it from src and tests.
Syncing this functionality between platforms and build targets.
Also: Stop redefining `O_BINARY` in src, and use a local macro with
the same effect. `O_BINARY` is used in `CURL_SET_BINMODE()` to decide
if this functionality is supported, and redefining it makes this check
pass always in unity builds. The check is required for Apple OS, because
it offers a `setmode()` function, successfully detected by both CMake
and autotools, but that function has a different functionality and
signature than that expected by `CURL_SET_BINMODE()`.
Also:
- drop MetaWare High C (MS-DOS) support for set binmode.
- tests/libtest/Makefile.inc: dedupe comments.
- lib/curl_setup_once.h: tidy up feature guards for `io.h`, `fcntl.h`.
Ref: #15652Closes#15787
Adjusted test 186 to verify.
Regression in 9664d5a547, shipped in 8.11.1
Reported-by: IcedCoffeee on github
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Fixes#15761Closes#15762
In the function for handling 'type=' in the -F command line arguments,
we make the code more lax to accept more strings and thereby also avoid
the use of sscanf().
Closes#15683
Sources used `lib/curlx.h` with both `ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF` set and unset
before including it.
In a cmake "unity" batch where the first included source had it unset,
the next sources did not get the macros requested with
`ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF` because `lib/curl.x` had already been included
without them.
Fix it by by making the macros enabled permanently and globally for
internal sources, and dropping `ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF`.
This came up while testing unity builds with smaller batches. The full,
default unity build where all `src` is bundled up in a single unit, was
not affected.
Fixes:
```
$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD_BATCH_SIZE=15
$ make -C build
...
curl/src/tool_getparam.c: In function ‘getparameter’:
curl/src/tool_getparam.c:2409:11: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msnprintf’; did you mean ‘vsnprintf’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
2409 | msnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T "-",
| ^~~~~~~~~
| vsnprintf
curl/src/tool_getparam.c:2409:11: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘msnprintf’ [-Wnested-externs]
[...]
```
Reported-by: Daniel Stenberg
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/14626#issuecomment-2301663491Closes#14632
Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.
- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname
- file name => filename
- user name = username
- man page => manpage
- run-time => runtime
- set-up => setup
- back-end => backend
- a HTTP => an HTTP
- Two spaces after a period => one space after period
Closes#14073
https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.html
as of 2023-11-29 [1].
Enable new recommended warnings (except `-Wsign-conversion`):
- enable `-Wformat=2` for clang (in both cmake and autotools).
- add `CURL_PRINTF()` internal attribute and mark functions accepting
printf arguments with it. This is a copy of existing
`CURL_TEMP_PRINTF()` but using `__printf__` to make it compatible
with redefinting the `printf` symbol:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0.4/gcc_5.html#SEC94
- fix `CURL_PRINTF()` and existing `CURL_TEMP_PRINTF()` for
mingw-w64 and enable it on this platform.
- enable `-Wimplicit-fallthrough`.
- enable `-Wtrampolines`.
- add `-Wsign-conversion` commented with a FIXME.
- cmake: enable `-pedantic-errors` the way we do it with autotools.
Follow-up to d5c0351055#2747
- lib/curl_trc.h: use `CURL_FORMAT()`, this also fixes it to enable format
checks. Previously it was always disabled due to the internal `printf`
macro.
Fix them:
- fix bug where an `set_ipv6_v6only()` call was missed in builds with
`--disable-verbose` / `CURL_DISABLE_VERBOSE_STRINGS=ON`.
- add internal `FALLTHROUGH()` macro.
- replace obsolete fall-through comments with `FALLTHROUGH()`.
- fix fallthrough markups: Delete redundant ones (showing up as
warnings in most cases). Add missing ones. Fix indentation.
- silence `-Wformat-nonliteral` warnings with llvm/clang.
- fix one `-Wformat-nonliteral` warning.
- fix new `-Wformat` and `-Wformat-security` warnings.
- fix `CURL_FORMAT_SOCKET_T` value for mingw-w64. Also move its
definition to `lib/curl_setup.h` allowing use in `tests/server`.
- lib: fix two wrongly passed string arguments in log outputs.
Co-authored-by: Jay Satiro
- fix new `-Wformat` warnings on mingw-w64.
[1] 56c0fde389/docs/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C%2B%2B.mdCloses#12489
Out of 415 labels throughout the code base, 86 of those labels were
not at the start of the line. Which means labels always at the start of
the line is the favoured style overall with 329 instances.
Out of the 86 labels not at the start of the line:
* 75 were indented with the same indentation level of the following line
* 8 were indented with exactly one space
* 2 were indented with one fewer indentation level then the following
line
* 1 was indented with the indentation level of the following line minus
three space (probably unintentional)
Co-Authored-By: Viktor Szakats
Closes#11134
- freopen stderr with the user-specified file (--stderr file) instead of
using a separate 'errors' stream.
- In tool_setup.h override stdio.h's stderr macro as global variable
tool_stderr.
Both freopen and overriding the stderr macro are necessary because if
the user-specified filename is "-" then stdout is assigned to
tool_stderr and no freopen takes place. See the PR for more information.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/10491
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/10673
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
While perfectly legal to do, clobbering function parameters and using
them as local variables is confusing at best and rarely improves code
readability. Fix by using a local variable instead, no functionality
is changed.
This also renames the parameter from data to mime_data since the term
data is (soft) reserved for the easy handle struct.
Closes: #10046
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
This no longer provide functions, only macros. Runs faster and produces
smaller output.
The biggest precaution this change brings:
DO NOT use post/pre-increments when passing arguments to the macros.
Closes#9429
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
This loop was using the number of bytes read from the file as condition
to keep reading.
From Linux's fread(3) man page:
> On success, fread() and fwrite() return the number of items read or
> written. This number equals the number of bytes transferred only when
> size is 1. If an error occurs, or the end of the file is reached, the
> return value is a short item count (or zero).
>
> The file position indicator for the stream is advanced by the number
> of bytes successfully read or written.
>
> fread() does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and
> callers must use feof(3) and ferror(3) to determine which occurred.
This means that nread!=0 doesn't make much sense as an end condition for
the loop: nread==0 doesn't necessarily mean that EOF has been reached or
an error has occured (but that is usually the case) and nread!=0 doesn't
necessarily mean that EOF has not been reached or that no read errors
have occured. feof(3) and ferror(3) should be uses when using fread(3).
Currently curl has to performs an extra fread(3) call to get a return
value equal to 0 to stop looping.
This usually "works" (even though nread==0 shouldn't be interpreted as
EOF) if stdin is a pipe because EOF usually marks the "real" end of the
stream, so the extra fread(3) call will return immediately and the extra
read syscall won't be noticeable:
bash-5.1$ strace -e read curl -s -F file=@- 0x0.st <<< a 2>&1 |
> tail -n 5
read(0, "a\n", 4096) = 2
read(0, "", 4096) = 0
read(0, "", 4096) = 0
http://0x0.st/oRs.txt
+++ exited with 0 +++
bash-5.1$
But this doesn't work if curl is reading from stdin, stdin is a
terminal, and the EOF is being emulated using a shell with ^D. Two
consecutive ^D will be required in this case to actually make curl stop
reading:
bash-5.1$ curl -F file=@- 0x0.st
a
^D^D
http://0x0.st/oRs.txt
bash-5.1$
A possible workaround to this issue is to use a program that handles EOF
correctly to indirectly send data to curl's stdin:
bash-5.1$ cat - | curl -F file=@- 0x0.st
a
^D
http://0x0.st/oRs.txt
bash-5.1$
This patch makes curl handle EOF properly when using fread(3) in
file2memory() so that the workaround is not necessary.
Since curl was previously ignoring read errors caused by this fread(3),
ferror(3) is also used in the condition of the loop: read errors and EOF
will have the same meaning; this is done to somewhat preserve the old
behaviour instead of making the command fail when a read error occurs.
Closes#8701
In an argument like `-F 'x=@/etc/hostname;filename="foo"abc'` the `abc`
is ignored. This adds a warning if the ignored data isn't all
whitespace.
Closes#7394
- Stick to a single unified way to use structs
- Make checksrc complain on 'typedef struct {'
- Allow them in tests, public headers and examples
- Let MD4_CTX, MD5_CTX, and SHA256_CTX typedefs remain as they actually
typedef different types/structs depending on build conditions.
Closes#5338
They serve very little purpose and mostly just add noise. Most of them
have been around for a very long time. I read them all before removing
or rephrasing them.
Ref: #3876Closes#3883
