As reported in oss-fuzz issue 22388, the contrib/hpack code doesn't
build anymore for now. Thanks to previous patch we can now just define
HPACK_STANDALONE in the few files which include hpack-tbl.h and we can
declare a dummy pool to hold the DHT size. This is enough to make the
code work again outside of the haproxy process. It was successfully
tested using:
$ echo 82 84 87 90 | ./decode
I found on an (old) AIX 5.1 machine that stdint.h didn't exist while
inttypes.h which is expected to include it does exist and provides the
desired functionalities.
As explained here, stdint being just a subset of inttypes for use in
freestanding environments, it's probably always OK to switch to inttypes
instead:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/basedefs/stdint.h.html
Also it's even clearer here in the autoconf doc :
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.61/html_node/Header-Portability.html
"The C99 standard says that inttypes.h includes stdint.h, so there's
no need to include stdint.h separately in a standard environment.
Some implementations have inttypes.h but not stdint.h (e.g., Solaris
7), but we don't know of any implementation that has stdint.h but not
inttypes.h"
This generates the tables and indexes which will be used by the HPACK
encoder. The headers are sorted by length, then by statistical frequency,
then by direction (preference for responses), then by name, then by index.
The purpose is to speed up their lookup.