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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation de
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Aaron Ballman |
Subject: |
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:36:22 -0500 |
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 2:08 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2022-11-15 06:50, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > Could you clarify what you mean, with a concrete example? Surely as
> > long as errors are reported on stderr and the compiler exits with
> > non-zero status, that's an acceptable way to report errors?
>
> Not if the "error" is harmless as far as Autoconf is concerned, which is
> what led to this thread. The concrete example here is that Autoconf
> needs to check whether a function can be linked to (as opposed to
> checking the function's signature). Clang shouldn't get in the way.
What is harmless to autoconf is a critical flaw in another context.
> In lots of places the C standard says behavior is undefined, even though
> the behavior is fine on the current platform for the intended use. It's
> not just the example we're talking about; adding zero to a null pointer
> is another such example.
>
> In such cases it's OK for Clang to warn, but having Clang exit with
> nonzero status is overkill and counterproductive.
I don't know that this is particularly persuasive -- it effectively
boils down to another variant of "I want to rely on a specific
behavior for something that is UB". I don't think Clang can promise
that we're not going to turn more statically-known UB into errors.
~Aaron
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, (continued)
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/16
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Jeffrey Walton, 2022/11/16
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/16
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bruno Haible, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Matz, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?,
Aaron Ballman <=
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/12
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Jason Merrill, 2022/11/17
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Rich Felker, 2022/11/10
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/10