From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] automatically ban strcpy()
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 02:58:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180726065840.GA27349@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRpcUOA5+k7v3Gy3WsLohedEb=j-a_fCGc3g0ktDfsDVA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:20:58PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:26 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > 1. We'll only trigger with -Wimplicit-function-declaration
> > (and only stop compilation with -Werror). These are
> > generally enabled by DEVELOPER=1. If you _don't_ have
> > that set, we'll still catch the problem, but only at
> > link-time, with a slightly less useful message:
> >
> > If instead we convert this to a reference to an
> > undefined variable, that always dies immediately. But
> > gcc seems to print the set of errors twice, which
> > clutters things up.
>
> The above does a pretty good job of convincing me that this ought to
> be implemented via an undefined variable rather than undefined
> function, exactly because it is the newcomer or casual contributor who
> is most likely to trip over a banned function, and almost certainly
> won't have DEVELOPER=1 set. The gcc clutter seems a minor point
> against the benefit this provides to that audience.
OK. I was on the fence, but it should be pretty trivial to switch. Let
me see if I can just make a replacement for patch 1, or if the whole
thing needs to be rebased on top.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-26 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 20:33 [PATCH 0/2] fail compilation with strcpy Jeff King
2018-07-19 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] introduce "banned function" list Jeff King
2018-07-19 21:11 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-19 21:27 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 21:59 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-20 0:55 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 21:15 ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-19 21:32 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 21:47 ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-20 0:54 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-19 23:55 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-07-20 1:08 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 1:12 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 9:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-20 17:45 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 13:22 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-07-20 17:56 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-20 12:42 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-07-20 14:41 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-20 17:48 ` Elijah Newren
2018-07-20 18:04 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 18:00 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] banned.h: mark strncpy as banned Jeff King
2018-07-19 21:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-19 21:33 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 18:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] fail compilation with strcpy Junio C Hamano
2018-07-20 19:18 ` Jeff King
2018-07-20 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-24 9:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Jeff King
2018-07-24 9:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] automatically ban strcpy() Jeff King
2018-07-24 17:20 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-26 6:58 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-07-26 7:21 ` [PATCH v3 " Jeff King
2018-07-26 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-27 8:08 ` Jeff King
2018-07-27 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-28 9:24 ` Jeff King
2018-07-24 9:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] banned.h: mark strcat() as banned Jeff King
2018-07-24 9:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] banned.h: mark sprintf() " Jeff King
2018-07-24 9:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] banned.h: mark strncpy() " Jeff King
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