Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Dec 20 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > >> When building Git with GCC 8.2.0 (at least from Homebrew on macOS, >> DEVELOPER flags enabled) one is greeted with a screenful of compiler >> errors: >> >> compat/obstack.c: In function '_obstack_begin': >> compat/obstack.c:162:17: error: cast between incompatible function types >> from 'void * (*)(long int)' to 'struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long >> int)' [-Werror=cast-function-type] >> h->chunkfun = (struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long)) chunkfun; >> ^ >> compat/obstack.c:163:16: error: cast between incompatible function types >> from 'void (*)(void *)' to 'void (*)(void *, struct _obstack_chunk *)' >> [-Werror=cast-function-type] >> h->freefun = (void (*) (void *, struct _obstack_chunk *)) freefun; >> ^ >> compat/obstack.c:116:8: error: cast between incompatible function types >> from 'struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long int)' to 'struct >> _obstack_chunk * (*)(long int)' [-Werror=cast-function-type] >> : (*(struct _obstack_chunk *(*) (long)) (h)->chunkfun) ((size))) >> ^ >> compat/obstack.c:168:22: note: in expansion of macro 'CALL_CHUNKFUN' >> chunk = h->chunk = CALL_CHUNKFUN (h, h -> chunk_size); >> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> <snip> > > We originally got this from now-discontinued eglibc, but I notice that > glibc.git's malloc/obstack.[ch]'s diff also changes these lines. If you > backport those do does that fix this warning? > > I.e. is this another case where we're blindly fixing bugs but should > just re-import upstream's code instead?
Good point. I am inclined to queue the remainder of the series without this one for now. Thanks.
