[PATCH 0/5] xfstests: eliminate build warnings in the "dmapi" subtree
Alex Elder
aelder at sgi.com
Tue Mar 22 12:35:50 CDT 2011
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On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 13:37 -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> Now that we're building the "dmapi" subtree the same way as the rest
> of the code in "xfstests", a lot of warnings are showing up in the
> build. This series eliminates them all, at least for three build
> architectures I have used so far (i386, x86_64, and ia64).
>
> Because of the sheer number of changes, I've broken it into
> a small series, each focused on files under a certain portion
> of the tree under "dmapi".
>
> Below are the types of warnings, and how they were generally fixed.
> In all cases I scanned the affected code to be reasonably sure the
> warning was harmless and the fix did not obscure a real problem.
> - Variables possibly used before set. Fixed by initializing such
> variables to 0 or NULL, or some appropriate symbolic value if
> available.
> - "Bald" assignments used as conditional values; GCC suggests adding
> an extra set of parentheses. Fixed by pulling the assignments out
> as a previous line of code, and using the assigned value alone in
> the conditional.
> - Variables used in scanf() functions having types that differ from
> what the format string indicates. Fixed by creating and using new
> variables of the type needed for scanf(), and then assigning the
> result to the original variable with a cast.
> - Variables used in printf() functions having types that differ from
> what the format string indicates. Fixed by casting the variable
> to the type indicated in the format string. In a few cases I
> changed "%lld" formats to "%llu" to be consistent with other usage
> for printing the same variable. (But I did not do this
> consistently.)
> - A lot of these cases involved using "%zd" in place of just
> "%d" for printing size_t objects.
> - In one case, replaced a call to tmpnam() with an equivalent call
> to mkstmp() using a local variable.
>
> Patch 1 covers files under:
> dmapi/src/common/cmd/
> dmapi/src/common/lib/
> dmapi/src/sample_hsm/
> dmapi/src/simple/
>
> Patch 2 covers:
> dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 1)
>
> Patch 3 covers:
> dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 2)
>
> Patch 4 covers:
> dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 3)
>
> Patch 5 covers:
> dmapi/src/suite2/
>
> -Alex
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