David Mosberger-Tang, le Fri 10 Mar 2006 17:06:22 -0700, a écrit :
> I'm inclined to treat this as a gcc-4 bug.
It is not.
> $ cat t.c
> char *
> foo (char *str)
> {
> return strdup(str);
> }
> $ gcc-3.3 -c -g -O -Wall t.c
> t.c: In function `foo':
> t.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup'
> t.c:4: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
Because strdup() here gets an implicit
int strdup(int str)
declaration, hence the warnings.
> gcc-4.0 -c -g -O -Wall t.c
> t.c: In function 'foo':
> t.c:4: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strdup'
> t.c:4: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
> 'strdup'
Same story, except that gcc has additionnal knowledge of which prototype
the strdup function should have: char *strdup(const char *str); . And
char * and int are not compatible types.
> The gcc-3.3 warnings makes perfect sense. The gcc-4.0 warnings are
> useless.
gcc-4.0 warnings are actually just more precise: not only there is a
missing declaration, but gcc has strong conviction that the implicit
prototype is really wrong (strdup() should really take char * and return
char *, not int).
> There is no hint on how the "implicit declaration of built-in function
> `strdup'" is incompatible.
Implicit declarations are in the form
int foo(int bar, int baz, etc.)
and the built-in strdup function has
char *strdup(const char *str)
as prototype. This is incompatible. gcc could even say "int is
incompatible with char*", but I guess gcc people consider this as too
verbose.
This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup()
function (that would take ints) is perfectly legal. gcc-4.0 emits the
warning to let the programmer know that he should disambiguate this by
either #including the usual C header, or by giving the prototype of his
own strdup() function.
Anyway, such warnings deserve grepping, since they are evidence of a
potential binary break.
Regards,
Samuel
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