[libvirt PATCH] Set -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Nov 12 09:41:39 UTC 2020


With CLang we're getting failures from cats in GLib macros

../dist-unpack/libvirt-6.10.0/src/util/vireventthread.c:35:1:
  error: passing 'typeof (*(&g_define_type_id__volatile)) *'
  (aka 'volatile unsigned long *') to parameter of type
  'gsize *' (aka 'unsigned long *') discards qualifiers
  [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
G_DEFINE_TYPE(virEventThread, vir_event_thread, G_TYPE_OBJECT)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The cast is valid and there's no way for libvirt to workaround
the issue, so we must disable this CLang warning flag.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 meson.build | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f2e4f2cc23..e4b7fa0728 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -405,6 +405,9 @@ cc_flags += [
   # so use this CLang-specific arg to keep it quiet
   '-Wno-typedef-redefinition',
 
+  # CLang complains about casts in G_DEFINE_TYPE(...)
+  '-Wno-incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers',
+
   # We don't use -Wc++-compat so we have to enable it explicitly
   '-Wjump-misses-init',
 
-- 
2.25.4




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