[libvirt] [PATCH glib] m4: disable gcc8 -Wcast-function-type warnings from -Wextra

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue Feb 20 17:24:46 UTC 2018


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>
---

Pushed as a CI build fix

 m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
index 0cf67fa..cbd9e0c 100644
--- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
+++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_GLIB_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
     # that one off, so we need to manually enable this again
     wantwarn="$wantwarn -Wjump-misses-init"
 
+    # We do "bad" function casts all the time for event callbacks
+    wantwarn="$wantwarn -Wno-cast-function-type"
+
     # GNULIB turns on -Wformat=2 which implies -Wformat-nonliteral,
     # so we need to manually re-exclude it.  Also, older gcc 4.2
     # added an implied ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL on any parameter marked
-- 
2.14.3




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