[libvirt] [PATCH v2 15/42] m4: disable gcc8 -Wcast-function-type warnings from -Wextra
Daniel P. Berrangé
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Feb 16 14:36:31 UTC 2018
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:43:20PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The -Wextra flag bundle gained a new warning -Wcast-function-type.
> This complains if you cast between two function prototypes where
> the number of parameters or their data types are not compatible.
> Unfortunately we need such "bad" function casts for our event
> callbacks. It is possible to silence the warning by first casting
> to the generic "void (*)(void)" function prototype, but that is
> rather ugly to add throughout libvirt code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
> m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> index 918764d362..fc185aef38 100644
> --- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> +++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
> # with gl_MANYWARN_COMPLEMENT
> # So we have -W enabled, and then have to explicitly turn off...
> wantwarn="$wantwarn -Wno-sign-compare"
> + # We do "bad" function casts all the time for event callbacks
> + wantwarn="$wantwarn -Wno-cast-function-type"
>
> # GNULIB expects this to be part of -Wc++-compat, but we turn
> # that one off, so we need to manually enable this again
FYI, I'm going to push just this patch as a build-fixer, since in retrospect
is it not really related to the rest of the changes in this huge series.
Regards,
Daniel
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