On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 01:22:00PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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.
Note that without this first patch the linux-gcc build job will fail with the above compiler error, and that's the only build job that runs the test suite with all the misc test knobs (split-index, commit-graph, etc.) enabled.
