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Re: [PATCH] warnings.m4: provide a means to specify the program to compi
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] warnings.m4: provide a means to specify the program to compile |
Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2012 10:04:06 +0200 |
Akim Demaille wrote:
> I have submitted this patch several times in this thread (starting at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-04/msg00049.html),
> and for some reason it remains unnoticed, and uncommented. Please let
> me know what is wrong in my approach.
>
> I would like to wrap a Bison 2.5.1 soon, and I expect to use this
> patch to decide whether I enable -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant (as
> G++ can happily reject 0 as a pointer without supporting nullptr, not
> considered as a bug by G++ people).
Hi Akim,
I was burned by that, too, while trying to build bison using gcc-4.8.x.
> The attached patch enhances warnings.m4 in several ways:
>
> - gl_COMPILER_OPTION_IF allows to define more fine grain tests on the
> behavior of the compiler. Forcing the result to be an assignment to
> a variable (which is AC_SUBST'ed) does not seem to offer the
> orthogonal design one would expect. This would be useful elsewhere,
> for instance in manywarnings, as I have already reported
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/msg00198.html)
>
> - separating the diagnostic part from the action part provides a
> cleaner way to implement test cases.
>
> - separating the diagnostic part from the action part helps extending
> both in a cleaner way:
>
> - it allowed me to cleanly integrate the missing AC_SUBST for
> WARN_CFLAGS instead of leaving this to modules/warnings
>
> - it will make it easier to check for the answers of the compiler on
> stderr (as currently, we merely check whether the compiler rejects
> the candidate option with an error status; this results in uselessly
> long compilation command lines, and spurious warnings in some
> situations).
>
> - the added parameter to gl_WARN_ADD allows to fine tune whether a
> given warning is wanted or not (e.g., 0 vs. nullptr as above).
I like the patch.
If no one objects, I'll push it later today.