From: Tsukasa OI <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] sim: Check known getopt definition existence
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 17:47:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96f61a59-4277-e4d5-0d6f-08d80a082add@irq.a4lg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7OdAyCT43IDqelE@vapier>
On 2023/01/03 12:12, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 27 Oct 2022 11:02, Tsukasa OI wrote:
>> On 2022/10/23 21:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 06 Oct 2022 06:43, Tsukasa OI wrote:
>>>> Clang generates a warning if there is a function declaration/definition
>>>> with zero arguments. Such declarations/definitions without a prototype (an
>>>> argument list) are deprecated forms of indefinite arguments
>>>> ("-Wdeprecated-non-prototype"). On the default configuration, it causes a
>>>> build failure (unless "--disable-werror" is specified).
>>>>
>>>> include/getopt.h defines some getopt function definitions but one of them
>>>> has a form "extern int getopt ();". If this form is selected in
>>>> include/getopt.h, Clang generates a warning and the build fails by default.
>>>>
>>>> In really old environments, this getopt definition with no arguments is
>>>> necessary (because the definition may change between environments).
>>>> However, this definition is now a cause of problems on modern environments.
>>>>
>>>> A good news is, this definition is not always selected (e.g. if used by
>>>> binutils/*.c). This is because configuration scripts of binutils, gas,
>>>> gprof and ld tries to find known definition of getopt function is used and
>>>> defines HAVE_DECL_GETOPT macro. If this macro is defined when getopt.h is
>>>> included, a good form of getopt is used and Clang won't generate warnings.
>>>>
>>>> This commit adds a modified portion of ld/configure.ac to find the known
>>>> getopt definition. If we could find one (and we *will* in most modern
>>>> environments), we don't need to rely on the deprecated definition.
>>>> ---
>>>> sim/config.h.in | 3 +++
>>>> sim/configure | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> sim/configure.ac | 10 ++++++++++
>>>
>>> this logic belongs in m4/sim_ac_platform.m4, not configure.ac
>>>
>>> should leave a comment above the code too indicating that this logic is
>>> purely for local getopt.h usage, and is copied from other dirs (e.g. the
>>> binutils files).
>>
>> OK, I'll submit a patch to move this portion to
>> sim/m4/sim_ac_platform.m4 with proper commit message.
>
> have you had a chance to fix this up yet ?
> -mike
I'm really sorry. Due to my poor health condition and upcoming
relocation, it's difficult to keep up with Binutils/GDB until... April
or May. But this is definitely the one I should have done before I get
so busy (and messy).
I'll submit a patch by Jan 6.
Tsukasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-03 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-13 12:57 [PATCH 0/4] sim/common: Suppress warnings if built with Clang Tsukasa OI
2022-09-13 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] sim: Add ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF Tsukasa OI
2022-09-13 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] sim: Remove self-assignments Tsukasa OI
2022-09-13 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] sim: Make WITH_{TRACE,PROFILE}-based macros bool Tsukasa OI
2022-10-05 11:38 ` Andrew Burgess
2022-10-06 5:33 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-09-13 12:57 ` [PATCH 4/4] sim: Suppress non-literal printf warning Tsukasa OI
2022-10-05 11:45 ` Andrew Burgess
2022-10-06 5:39 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-10-23 12:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2022-10-24 10:50 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] sim: Suppress warnings if built with Clang Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] sim: Remove self-assignments Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] sim: Make WITH_{TRACE,PROFILE}-based macros bool Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] sim: Suppress non-literal printf warning Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] sim: Check known getopt definition existence Tsukasa OI
2022-09-25 8:42 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] sim: Initialize pbb_br_* by default Tsukasa OI
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] sim: Suppress warnings if built with Clang Tsukasa OI
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] sim: Remove self-assignments Tsukasa OI
2022-10-11 14:21 ` Andrew Burgess
2022-10-11 14:29 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] sim: Make WITH_{TRACE,PROFILE}-based macros bool Tsukasa OI
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] sim: Suppress non-literal printf warning Tsukasa OI
2022-10-11 14:22 ` Andrew Burgess
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] sim: Check known getopt definition existence Tsukasa OI
2022-10-12 16:28 ` Tom de Vries
2022-10-12 17:03 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-10-12 17:08 ` Tom de Vries
2022-10-12 17:20 ` Tom de Vries
2022-10-13 9:50 ` Tsukasa OI
2022-10-23 12:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2022-10-27 2:02 ` Tsukasa OI
2023-01-03 3:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2023-01-03 8:47 ` Tsukasa OI [this message]
2022-10-06 6:43 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] sim: Initialize pbb_br_* by default Tsukasa OI
2022-10-11 14:20 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] sim: Suppress warnings if built with Clang Andrew Burgess
2022-10-11 16:40 ` Tom de Vries
2022-10-11 18:02 ` Tsukasa OI
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