30/05/2018 04:45, Gavin Hu: > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:45:55PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 28/05/2018 15:24, Bruce Richardson: > > > > Would a simpler solution for this not be to put "-Wno-implicit- > > fallthrough" > > > > for pmdinfogen? GCC will not give a warning for an unrecognised "-Wno" > > > > flag when compiling, unless there are other errors. This means we > > > > can just use the flag without bothering with version checks. > > > > > > No, it does not work. > > > I have this error with clang 5.0.1: > > > error: unknown warning option '-Wno-format-truncation' > > > > > Yes, you still need to check for GCC to use the flag, just not for a > > specific > > version of GCC. > > > > /Bruce > [Gavin Hu] Hi Thomas, '-Wno-format-truncation' is applied to gcc only, not to > clang. > Gcc, icc and clang have their own WERROR_FLAGS, they should not mix up with > each other.
Now I understand what we missed from the beginning: I am testing with meson. This flag is added unconditionnaly in config/meson.build. > @Bruce, > Yes, in this sense, I am really concerned about to add > -Wno-implicit-fallthrough option in the pmdinfogen Makefile, as it impacts > not only gcc, but also clang and icc. > Maybe this not a best solution, as maybe it is not supported by all > compilers. So should I fall back to the previous patch which check for the > gcc version and apply the options for gcc only?