On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 07:23, Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 09:07, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> [..]
> > The effect of "-Wformat -Wformat-security" without -Werror is only more
> > warnings.
> > Unfortunately -Wformat will generate spurious warnings if the code is
> > not careful to give additional information to the compiler with
> > __attribute__((__format__(printf))) and friends. And even that sometimes
> > not enough, and explicit #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored
> > "-Wformat-nonliteral"
> > is needed. So all in all, it is totally expected that code which is not
> > written with recent gcc in mind will generate spurious format warnings, even
> > if the code is completely OK. So turning this on will make builds more
> > noisy, and possibly break projects which use -Werror.
>
> Even gcc themselves "is not written with recent gcc in mind".
>
> $ grep '\[\-W' gcc.log| awk -F\[ '{print $2}'|awk -F\] '{print
> $1}'|sort | uniq -c | sort -nr| head -n 20
> 485 -Wmissing-profile
> 106 -Wformat-security
> 81 -Wmaybe-uninitialized
> 44 -Wimplicit-fallthrough=
> 24 -Wunused-function
> 20 -Wpointer-sign
> 20 -Wimplicit-function-declaration
> 19 -Wstringop-truncation
> 8 -Wformat-truncation=
> 8 -Wcast-qual
> 7 -Wcast-function-type
> 4 -Wcpp
> 4 -Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch
> 3 -Wparentheses
> 2 -Wunused-value
> 2 -Wunused-parameter
> 2 -Wmissing-prototypes
> 2 -Wmisleading-indentation
> 2 -Wint-to-pointer-cast
> 2 -Wdiscarded-qualifiers
>
> BTW: each Fedora package build should have as part of the build report
> something like above.
>
Could you explain why it should? I am not sure what those flags
actually mean and why it would tell me anything about a package build.
If upstream decides that libX needs to be compiled with
-Wmissing-prototypes but nothing else.. what is it to me?
> kloczek
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