[PATCH] meson.build: Remove the -Wvla-larger-then flag

[Martin Kletzander]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>The flag has a typo in it, it's "...-than=..." and not "...-then=...",
>so this was in fact never used. Since we're also using -Wvla (without
>size), we should already get warnings about any variable length arrays
>anyway, so the additional "-Wvla-larger-than" does not make much sense
>and thus we can simply drop this.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
>---
> meson.build | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>

This makes sense to me and I could not find any possible typo alias
anywhere (like we have in virsh, for example).  The only thing I am
unsure about is whether we want to actually use the proper naming.  The
reason is that by default this is set to vla-larger-than=PTRDIFF_MAX
which is pretty huge number.  On the other hand the man page for GCC
says it is only effective with -ftree-vrp (-02 and above).

I do not see whether using the predefined alloc_max would make sense or
not.  So I am not against just removing it, but feel free to overrule me
as I did not look into this as much as others will be capable of.

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>

>diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
>index 4f23f9104e..40c841e777 100644
>--- a/meson.build
>+++ b/meson.build
>@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ cc_flags += [
>   '-Wvariadic-macros',
>   '-Wvector-operation-performance',
>   '-Wvla',
>-  '-Wvla-larger-then=4031',
>   '-Wvolatile-register-var',
>   '-Wwrite-strings',
> ]
>-- 
>2.27.0
>
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